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“Participating in worship over time shapes our souls in a variety of ways. It exposes us to and gives us practice in ways of talking, seeing, and gesturing that form the categories in which we think, talk, and gesture about our faith. It helps us experience emotions that may be new to us, emotions we would never have felt or cultivated on our own. It not only speaks about virtue but forms us to become virtuous over time. Worship is a powerfully forming and transforming force. This is, in part, what Romano Guardini meant when he spoke of liturgy as a force that ‘goes out like ripples into the world,’ or what Walter Brueggemann means when he refers to liturgy’s ‘world-making’ quality. Liturgical participation quietly but powerfully sculpts our souls.” 
—John D. Witvliet, “Shaping Souls,” © June 2009, ReformedWorship.org, CC BY-NC-SA. 

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The role of worship in forming the faith of Christ’s disciples

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