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#56 Fasting, resting and worship

Ask NT Wright Anything

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The Importance of Prayer in the Day the Revolution Begun

In much of contemporary American evangelical Christianity it seems as though the concept of worship has been truncated to mean almost exclusively a musical event. Could you comment on whether you think we've limited the idea of worship and how a fully biblical picture of worship might challenge some of these contemporary issues? I'm fascinated by what you say about worship becoming more and more just a musical event because i think that's a reaction against earlier generations in the free churches particularly where worship was mostly a sermon with a few prayers and a couple of hymns either side as it were. We are invited to become characters in this drama in which Jesus is playing the central role of course and to find ourselves drawn into his story

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