{"id":1830,"date":"2010-04-07T23:31:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T06:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2010-04-07T23:31:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T06:31:34","slug":"turning-worship-on-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/04\/07\/turning-worship-on-its-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning worship on its head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you get people to come to church that don&#8217;t really think they need to? Give away free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reporternews.com\/news\/2010\/apr\/03\/the-million-dollar-giveaway\/\">cars<\/a>? Maybe just free pizza. Have a kickin&#8217; worship band? Photos of smiling eligible bachelorettes on your website? And what is the fellowship like once they get there? Warm? Contrived?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When people tell me that they find Mass boring, I want to say to them: it&#8217;s supposed to be boring, or at least seriously underwhelming. It&#8217;s a long-term education in becoming un-excited, since only that will enable us to dwell in a quiet bliss which doesn&#8217;t abstract from our present or our surroundings or our neighbor, but which increases our attention, our presence, and our appreciation for what is around us.<\/p>\n<p>-James Alison, Worship in a Violent World, Undergoing God, p.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christopher Rudy further <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1252\/is_2_136\/ai_n32372850\/\">comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This rather monastic vision of liturgy challenges Pelagian conceptions  that emphasize stimulation, performance, and orchestrated community.  <strong>Neither God nor humanity needs to be manipulated or bribed<\/strong>. God is  already present, and the sacrifice already complete in Christ, so true  worship should lead believers into the deliberate peacefulness of the  forgiving victim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you get people to come to church that don&#8217;t really think they need to? Give away free cars? Maybe just free pizza. Have a kickin&#8217; worship band? Photos of smiling eligible bachelorettes on your website? And what is the fellowship like once they get there? Warm? Contrived? When people tell me that they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/04\/07\/turning-worship-on-its-head\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turning worship on its head&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}