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3 Bedroom Suite on Main Floor of House for Rent
Wine before Breakfast
posted by Josh Krabbe
Wine Before Breakfast-Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m. Wine Before Breakfast is a weekly worship service jointly sponsored by the Anglican, Christian Reformed, and Lutheran campus ministries. In his book, "Israel's Praise: Doxology Against Idolatry and Ideology";, Brueggemann suggests that worship is not only a responsive act to what God has and is doing. Worship is also constitutive, that is, worship, as expressed in Israel's praise to Yahweh is an exercise in world-making. In her worship of Yahweh, Israel sings, prays, and imagines a new world, a world in which God is sovereign and God's rule, characterized by justice, righteousness and peace, is the reality. Israel, by expressing and acknowledging this new world in her worship, actively participates in it, lives in obedience to it, and announces it to the nations around her, nations who have constructed their own worlds and who need to be liberated from them. The university is a place where worlds collide. Students and faculty come together from a variety of socially and culturally constructed worlds. At Wine Before Breakfast we come together to feast on the Word and Sacrament. We come together to worship, and in our worship we create a radical alternative reality to these other worlds, an alternative that is shaped by the character of God. It's a world where the weak are the ones who are strong, the poor are the ones who are weak and the slaves are the ones who are truly free. As this new world is made, other worlds are unmade, until "the whole earth is filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Isa. 11:9). Last semester our imaginations were captured and shaped by the world Paul creates in his letter to the Colossians. During the winter Semester we'll be taking a look at the Exodus, and how that story's themes are played out in the book of Isaiah and mirrored in Luke's Gospel. |
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