Sabbath Day Worship

The Shape of Sabbath Day Worship

--Sabbath is a radical practice.
--Liturgy is a daring act of imagination.
--Theology of a God who is doing hands-on work to make human futures.
--Resistance to a dominant, life-flattening order.
--possibilities of a covenant community:
(a) celebration of a God-ordered life(b) practice of hope in the face of the world's hopelessness
--celebration of a world that is fruitful and generative (not "use-ful")
--God's themes of wholeness and completion in the midst of world that is half-baked and distorted.
--The peace of Jesus (an antidote to anxiety)
--Fabric of our lives depends on fidelity, not "productivity."
--Liturgy is a way of imagining the world differently and acting according to that imagination.
So this is what our Sunday Worship is about?!!!

(notes from 1994 Kirkridge Retreat)