A good friend, Paul Fromont, has highlighted a recently published book on his blogsite. It looks like it is well worth reading. Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church: The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians By Timothy Johnson (Eerdmans, 2011).
There is a review of the book at http://prodigal.typepad.com/ if you would like to read more; but what caught my eye was a quote about the radicalness of worship. Johnson states:-
…. The single greatest countercultural act Christians perform is to worship together and proclaim that Jesus is Lord. To cease from the constant round of commerce and consumption, to resist the manipulation of media that insists that working and possessing defines worth, and to proclaim with the body language of communal gathering that Jesus, not any other power, is Lord is to enact the politics of God’s kingdom and to embody the prayer ‘your kingdom come.’ (124)…”
A quote worth contemplating and a book worth reading.
