Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the Turn-of-the-Century Culture By: Marva J. Dawn (Part 1)

I am reading the Chinese translation of the book, but I managed to find almost all the parts I wanted from google books. =) I have finished 2/3 of the book, still 1/3 more to go, but I'll share it bit by bit.

From Reaching Out Without Dumbling Down
(I am a bit lazy to type this all up)

This is a book about worship, one with messages we need to hear. The standards of men/women dropped over the past decades, their ability to appreciate literary works, art whatever has declined.



And we sometimes try to get these people with "lower standards" to church by lowering the standards of worship in our church. That's where we got it wrong, worship is for God, not for us, or any other purposes.









We seldom acknowledge suffering in our worship, when we talked about suffering, we often talked about how God can help us, but in Psalms, the poets had a different way of expressing their feelings in their worship as Walter Brueggemann pointed out