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For All God's Worth
I just started reading For All God's Worth by N.T. Wright. I started with the introduction, naturally, and the opening of the book was so deep and thought provoking that I thought I would blog-it.
"How can you cope with the end of a world and the beginning of another one? How can you put an earthquake into a test-tube, or the sea into a bottle? How can you live with the terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human, that fire has become flesh, that life itself came to life and walked in our midst? Christianity either means that, or it means nothing. It is either the most devastating disclosure of the deepest reality in the world, or it's a sham, a nonsense, a bit of deceitful play-acting. Most of us, unable to cope with saying either of those things, condemn ourselves to live in the shallow world in between. We may not be content there, but we don't know how to escape."
N.T. Wright; For All God's Worth
From what I have deducted from the introduction, this book will be about worship. N. T. Wright writes that the word 'worship' comes from 'worth-ship' and it means "to accord worth, true value, to something, to recognize and respect it for the true worth it has." Time to read on.
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