If all right theology, and in fact all right living, begins with the wonder of God, then the answer when a person sins isn’t the endless lamenting of one’s sin or inability, but a returning to the wonder of God.
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One reason why we Christians argue so much about which hymn to sing, which liturgy to follow, which way to worship is that the commandments teach us to believe that bad liturgy eventually leads to bad ethics. You begin by singing some sappy, sentimental hymn, then you pray some pointless prayer, and the next thing you know you have murdered your best friend. -- Stanley Hauerwas
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