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叫我想起"as we gather"這首歌


又叫我想起從前團契興旺得一個星期50多人時我問過的一條反思問題...
(個一期平均一個月不是一次game night, 就是一次gym night, 加上一月一次的大食會...又常常也是"玩", 所以引了很多人來團契, 叫我問起當時plan 團契週會的一班弟兄姊妹這一個反思的問題, 而當然..我是沒有挑戰的意思啦......)

"我們在攪團契週會
是在一個社區活動中加入宗教色彩?
還是在宗教活動中加入了社區活動的色彩?"

err..
恕小弟無知

點解係都要二分化? mutually exclusive 架咩?

hey dk, you're getting smarter...

my take is, we evangelize through our worship (definition of worship is not limited to worship services), both when gathered and dispersed.

What do you think?

I have reservations with this definition of worship, even though people have been saying this kind of stuff around me all the time.

I think there is a danger in saying "oh we need to worship with our lives" without defining what worship IS.

Why don't we say "our lives should be a living devotion" or "our lives should be a living evangelism" more?

My definition of worship:
Worship is divine activity expressed by the people of God by their actions, symbols and speech.

With this definition, our live should be "the" worship, while our worship services are the rehersals of "the" worship.

Does this help clarify my point?

Mmm, I get that part.

The question is how did we come to this definition? I'm uncomfortable because the term worship has been commonly associated with 'worship services'. The connotation is outward and upward.

But Christian lives.... it should be downward too. "He must increase, I must decrease"... It seems to me that there is a baggage with saying "our lives should be a worship". We need to get rid of the old definition completely before declaring this new one.

I was reading 羅馬書 today, and 啟導本 said this about 12:2 (將身體獻上﹐當作活祭﹐是聖潔的﹐是上帝所喜悅的﹔你們如此事奉﹐乃是理所當然的。) - 「"事奉"原文和"敬拜"為同一字。信徒將身體獻上是發乎心靈的全人的事奉。」

Mmm...

Or I'm just not understanding it correctly.

阿中, I think your understand is correct. We need to renew our vocabularies when discussing about worship. Personally, I will call our life a "worship 敬拜", while the event on sunday the "worship event" or "worship service", 崇拜.

Much of the debate about worship is unneccessary if they have a definition about the terms they use, such as "traditional" and "contemporary".