Quotes

From Emerging Churches by Eddie Gibes and Ryan K. Bolger.

"However, after three hundred years of cognitive-based Christianity, we have entered a new era in which such a reductionistic focus on mind has been discredited by the culture at large. . . The Reformation focused on the spoken Word, while postmodern worship embraces the experienced Word" (78).

I remember a book entitled "Don't Check Your Brains at the Door." It's interesting, we seemed to have 'progressed' to saying don't check your body at the door.

As I am thinking about this... Gathered worship should be a psychosomatic communal spiritual experience.

Psycho = mind and soma = body meaning a mind-body experience.

Communal represents the idea of being connected with others. A gathered worship service should some how help me to be more connected with other humans than less connected.

Spiritual, as I am using it here represents a deeper connection with God and the person we were created to be.

In other words a corporate gathering for worship should engage me physically, mentally, and be emotionally connecting me to God, self and others. I should leave such an experience more in unity with God, self, others and God's creation.