Archive for January 24th, 2007
Worship and the community of friends of God
"Ulitmately, the goal of Christian worship is to create and sustain a community of friends of God who precisely because they are friends of God commit themselves to embodying and proclaiming and practicing the ways of God’s reign in the world. Such a life is not without risk — the faith of the martyrs attests this — but it is the vocation of the friends of God, a vocation into which we are initiated as we learn and practice the ways of Jesus, the perfect embodiment and exemplar of friendship with God."
– Paul J. Wadell, Becoming Friends: Worship, Justice, and the Practice of Christian Friendship , page 17.
