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In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps readers recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices. He explains that worship is the imagination station that incubates our loves and longings so that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom. This is why the church and worshiping in a local community of believers should be the hub and heart of Christian formation and discipleship.
Following the publication of his influential work Desiring the Kingdom, Smith received numerous requests from pastors and leaders for a more accessible version of that books content. No mere abridgment, this new book draws on years of Smiths popular presentations on the ideas in Desiring the Kingdom to offer a fresh, bottom-up rearticulation. The author creatively uses film, literature, and music illustrations to engage readers and includes new material on marriage, family, youth ministry, and faith and work. He also suggests individual and communal practices for shaping the Christian life.
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2016 by James K. A. Smith
Published by Brazos Press
a division of Baker Publishing Group
P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.brazospress.com
Ebook edition created 2016
Ebook corrections 10.10.2016
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meansfor example, electronic, photocopy, recordingwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
ISBN 978-1-4934-0366-0
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com
Scripture quotations labeled NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Portions of chapter 5 originally appeared in Growing a Healthy Heart ( Modern Reformation 24, no. 3 [May/June 2015]: 3843) and Marriage for the Common Good ( Comment , July 17, 2014, https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/4247/marriage-for-the-common-good/) and are used here by permission.
Portions of chapter 7 originally appeared in The Gift of Constraints (Faith & Leadership, September 10, 2012, https://www.faithandleadership.com/james-ka-smith-gift-constraints); Jubilee: Creation Is a Manifesto (The High Calling, February 22, 2015, http://www.thehighcalling.org/articles/essay/jubilee-creation-manifesto); Pursue God: How God Pulls Us to Himself (The High Calling, October 3, 2014, http://www.thehighcalling.org/articles/essay/pursue-god-how-god-pulls-us-himself); and Tradition for Innovation (Faith & Leadership, June 13, 2012, https://www.faithandleadership.com/james-ka-smith-tradition-innovation) and are used here by permission.
For
John Witvliet,
co-conspirator
In memory of
Robert Webber,
one of my most important teachers,
though we never met
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Proverbs 4:23
My weight is my love. Wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me.
Augustine, Confessions
Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Love Alone Is Credible
We in America need ceremonies, is I suppose, sailor, the point of what I have written.
John Updike, Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car
Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
Winnie the Pooh
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Preface
1. You Are What You Love: To Worship Is Human
2. You Might Not Love What You Think: Learning to Read Secular Liturgies
3. The Spirit Meets You Where You Are: Historic Worship for a Postmodern Age
4. What Story Are You In? The Narrative Arc of Formative Christian Worship
5. Guard Your Heart: The Liturgies of Home
6. Teach Your Children Well: Learning by Heart
7. You Make What You Want: Vocational Liturgies
Benediction
For Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Back Cover
Youve caught a vision. God has gotten bigger for you. Youve captured a sense of the gospels scope and reachthat the renewing power of Christ reaches far as the curse is found. You have come to realize that God is not just in the soul-rescue business; he is redeeming all things (Col. 1:20).
The Bible has come to life for you in ways youve never experienced before. Its almost like youre seeing Genesis 1 and 2 for the first time, realizing that were made to be makers, commissioned to be Gods image bearers by taking up our God-given labor of culture-making. Its as if someone gave you a new decoder ring for reading the prophets. You cant understand how you ever missed Gods passionate concern for justicecalling on the people of God to care for the downtrodden and champion the oppressed. Now as you read you cant help but notice the persistent presence of the widow, the orphan, and the stranger.
Now the question is: What does this have to do with church?
This book articulates a spirituality for culture-makers, showing (I hope) why discipleship needs to be centered in and fueled by our immersion in the body of Christ. Worship is the imagination station that incubates our loves and longings so that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom. If you are passionate about seeking justice, renewing culture, and taking up your vocation to unfurl all of creations potential, you need to invest in the formation of your imagination. You need to curate your heart. You need to worship well. Because you are what you love.
And you worship what you love.
And you might not love what you think.
Which raises an important question. Lets dare to ask it.
If you read this book and find yourself hungry for more, youll find a more detailed and in-depth articulation of these themes in my Cultural Liturgies trilogy (the first two of which are noted below). In the hope that this book might be the beginning of a journey, here are some guides to accompany you along the way.
Abernethy, Alexis D., ed. Worship That Changes Lives: Multidisciplinary and Congregational Perspectives on Spiritual Transformation. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008. A multifaceted consideration of the opportunities and challenges for transformative worship.
Bolsinger, Tod. It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the Community of God Transforms Lives. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2004. A case for the church as the center of discipleship.
Brooks, David. The Road to Character . New York: Random House, 2015 . An accessible, journalistic account of character, virtue formation, and the importance of imitation. Includes powerful profiles of exemplars like Augustine, Dorothy Day, Dwight Eisenhower, and more.
Cosper, Mike. Rhythms of Grace: How the Churchs Worship Tells the Story of the Gospel . Wheaton: Crossway, 2013. Excellent introduction to the narrative arc of intentional Christian worship.
Duhigg, Charles. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business . New York: Random House, 2014. An accessible account of both ancient wisdom and scientific insight into the significance of habit in the rhythms of our lives.
Labberton, Mark. The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living Gods Call to Justice . Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2012. Reminds us that worship ends with sending that worship shapes a peculiar people called to embody Gods desire for shalom .
Smith, James K. A. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation . Cultural Liturgies 1. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009. An in-depth articulation of the model sketched in You Are What You Love . Think of it as the 201 version of the argument presented in this book. Chapter 5 includes a detailed reading of the Story implicitly embedded in historic Christian worship.
. Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works . Cultural Liturgies 2. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013. Articulates philosophical foundations for a liturgical theology of culture, with special attention to its implication for planning and leading worship.
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