I’m appreciating the utter deconstruction of the Platonic spirit/body dualism in emerging Church thinking. Worship is all about this world, and the world to come.
I appreciate how Robert Webber phrases this at www.ancientfutureworship.blogspot.com:
“The unique nature of Christian worship and of spirituality is their embodied nature. Worship and spirituality both affirm this world, this history, this life. Worship recalls God’s actions in this world to redeem it. Spirituality contemplates God’s actions in this world and participates in God’s life in this world. In this way, worship and spirituality are grounded in the work of Jesus Christ incarnate in this history, who died on the wood of the cross, left the tomb empty, and ascended to heaven. He gave the church the calling to proclaim, sing, and enact his mighty saving deeds and to live in union with Him and His purposes for this world while we anticipate the new heavens and the new earth.”
Realizing that we were made for earth-living, we embrace God both in the here and now, and in the there and then.
Embodied Worship echoes the words of Iranaeus of Lyons:
“The glory of God is a human being, full alive.”