Loving God in Return: The Practice of Passionate Worship
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In Loving God in Return: The Practice of Passionate Worship we respond with love to. We practice listening to God, allowing God to shape our hearts and minds through prayer, personal devotion, and community worship. We love God.
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Loving God in Return - Robert Schnase
The Fruitful Living Series
Jesus taught a way of life and invited people into a relationship with God that was vibrant, dynamic and fruitful. He said, I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit. . . . My father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples,
(John 15: 5, 8). Jesus wanted people to flourish.
Scripture is sprinkled with phrases that point to fruitful living—the kingdom of God, eternal life, immeasurable riches, a peace that passes all understanding, abundant life.
How do I cultivate a life that is abundant, fruitful, purposeful, and deep? What are the commitments, critical risks, and practices that open me to God’s transforming grace and that help me discover the difference God intends for me to make in the world?
How do I live the fruitful, flourishing life of a follower of Christ?
Radical Hospitality. Passionate Worship. Intentional Faith Development. Risk-Taking Mission and Service. Extravagant Generosity.
Since the publication of Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations, these edgy, provocative, dangerous words have helped hundreds of congregations understand their mission, renew ministries, and stretch toward fruitfulness and excellence for the purposes of Christ.
The Fruitful Living Series moves the discussion of Christian practice from the congregational level to the personal practices of discipleship. The fruitful God-related life develops with intentional and repeated attention to five essential practices that are critical for our growth in Christ.
Radical Hospitality in our personal walk with Christ begins with an extraordinary receptivity to the grace of God. In distinctive and personal ways, we invite God into our hearts and make space for God in our lives. We receive God’s love and offer it to others.
Through the practice of Passionate Worship, we learn to love God in return. We practice listening to God, allowing God to shape our hearts and minds through prayer, personal devotion, and community worship. We love God.
Through the practice of Intentional Faith Development, we do the soul work that connects us to others, immerses us in God’s word, and positions us to grow in grace and mature in Christ. We learn in community.
The practice of Risk-Taking Mission and Service involves offering ourselves in purposeful service to others in need, making a positive difference even at significant personal cost and inconvenience to our own lives. We serve.
Through the practice of Extravagant Generosity, we offer our material resources in a manner that supports the causes that transform life and relieve suffering and that enlarges the soul and sustains the spirit. We give back.
These five practices – to receive God’s love, to love God in return, to grow in Christ, to serve others, and to give back—are so essential to growth in Christ and to the deepening of the spiritual life that failure to attend to them, develop them, and deepen them with intentionality limits our capacity to live fruitfully and fully, to settle ourselves completely in God, and to become instruments of God’s transforming grace. The adjectives—radical, passionate, intentional, risk-taking, and extravagant—provoke us out of complacency and remind us that these practices require more than haphazard, infrequent, and mediocre attention.
These practices open our heart—to God, to others, to a life that matters, a life rich with meaning, relationship, and contribution. They help us flourish.
Christian Practice
The ministry of Jesus is grounded in personal practices. Jesus’ life is marked by prayer, solitude, worship, reflection, the study of scripture, conversation, community, serving, engagement with suffering, and generosity. These personal practices sustained a ministry that opened people to God’s grace, transformed human hearts, and changed the circumstances of people in need.
Christian practices are those essential activities we repeat and deepen over time. They create openings for God’s spirit to shape us. Practices are not simply principles we talk about; practices are something we do. They make our faith a tangible and visible part of daily life. We see them done in the life of