Liturgy of the Ordinary
by Tish Harrison Warren | Book Summary
Author: Tish Harrison Warren
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21st century Christians can be conditioned to expect the radical. Our culture prizes instant results and extreme experiences. Church culture often reflects similar trends, a yearning for more intense spirituality, with radical experiences and profound worship, all the while despising the 'ordinary' processes of God's work in our lives. Reading this book, we will walk through a perfectly normal day. We'll get up, make the bed, lose our keys, check our email, get stuck in traffic, drink tea. Nothing extraordinary will happen. But, with our eyes open to God's presence in all of this, every single thing that happens will be an extraordinary opportunity to grow in godliness and relate to Him. The new life we have in Christ, "is lived out in days, hours and minutes. God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today" (p. 21). Are you a Christian with an ordinary life? If so, this is a must-read! |
Tish Harrison Warren is an ordained priest in the Anglican Church in North America. She received an MA in Theology from Gordon-Conwell and worked for some years as a campus staff worker at Vanderbilt University with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries. She and her husband Jonathan then worked together among scholars at the University of Texas at Austin.
She and Jonathan were both ordained as priests in March 2014, and helped to plant Resurrection Anglican Church, South Austin. They now serve as co-associate rectors at Church of The Ascension, Pittsburgh.
She is a regular contributor of articles and essays to Christianity Today, CT Women, Art House America, Comment Magazine, The Well, Christ and Pop Culture, and The Point Magazine.
Liturgy of the Ordinary
by Tish Harrison Warren
[ Book Summary ]
| Author | Tish Harrison Warren |
| Publisher | IVP |
| Date | November 1, 2016 |
| Pages | 184 |
Overview:
Most of the time our days are ordinary. Sleep, eat, work, relate, sleep…repeat. How does our growing relationship with our extraordinary God fill such ordinariness?
21st century Christians can be conditioned to expect the radical. Our culture prizes instant results and extreme experiences. Church culture often reflects similar trends, a yearning for more intense spirituality, with radical experiences and profound worship, all the while despising the 'ordinary' processes of God's work in our lives.
Reading this book, we will walk through a perfectly normal day. We'll get up, make the bed, lose our keys, check our email, get stuck in traffic, drink tea. Nothing extraordinary will happen.
But, with our eyes open to God's presence in all of this, every single thing that happens will be an extraordinary opportunity to grow in godliness and relate to Him.
The new life we have in Christ, "is lived out in days, hours and minutes. God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today" (p. 21).
Are you a Christian with an ordinary life? If so, this is a must-read!
Tish Harrison Warren is an ordained priest in the Anglican Church in North America. She received an MA in Theology from Gordon-Conwell and worked for some years as a campus staff worker at Vanderbilt University with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries. She and her husband Jonathan then worked together among scholars at the University of Texas at Austin.
She and Jonathan were both ordained as priests in March 2014, and helped to plant Resurrection Anglican Church, South Austin. They now serve as co-associate rectors at Church of The Ascension, Pittsburgh.
She is a regular contributor of articles and essays to Christianity Today, CT Women, Art House America, Comment Magazine, The Well, Christ and Pop Culture, and The Point Magazine.