Monthly Archives: April 2007

The Divine Embrace is a book that was recommended to me by a friend in the ministry. Thanks Bill. I found it to be amazingly helpful in my own journey. There are some quotes that I’d like to think more about and even have some conversation about that will be posted soon. I chose to make any possible conversation part of this blog because I think it has to do with how we need to think about following Christ in this postmodern era… This spurred me on to another Robert Webber work that I had begun and now finished… The Younger Evangelicals…

“The current focus on worship originating in self is probably a reaction against truth without passion and is what happened to me as a result of the Enlightenment and what happened to me when my learning of Scripture through the scientific method left me dry.” (Embrace p.233)

“Worship needs both truth and passion. Truth without passion is dry. Passion without truth is empty. Where do we go to find both truth and passion? I suggest recovering worship as the proclamation and enactment of God’s story. (Robert Webber, Worship Old and New 2nd ed.)” (Embrace p. 233)

“Prayer is a weapon God has given his people in the struggle against those evil impulses that drive a person to focus on self and self- interest.” (Embrace p. 208)

“The spiritual life is not an escape from life but an affirmation of God’s way of life in the struggles we meet in our personal thoughts, in the relationships we have in the family, among our neighbors, at work, and in our leisure.” (Embrace p. 202)