One of the most
impactful books that I have read in the last five years was entitled The
Dangerous Act of Worship, by a pastor named Mark Labberton. He wrote this memorable statement:
“The perception that issues of worship and issues of justice are separate or sequential or easily distinguishable shows the inadequacy of our theology, both of worship and of justice.”
What he
meant was that living missionally in regards to establishing justice and
offering compassion for the downtrodden IS worship…much like what we read in
Amos 5:21-24 (and what Martin Luther King preached in his magnificent “I Have a
Dream” sermon on this passage). We offer
the kingdom of God - forgiveness in Christ through the cross and what life under
Christ’s rulership should look like. It
is one of the ways in which we worship Christ with a full-bodied allegiance!
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