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38 Sacred Roots Workshop: Retr ieving the Great Tradi t ion in the Contemporary Church

c. Oblivious to the hermeneutical value of the Church’s ecumenical creeds

4. Worldly, culture-centered worship methodologies : forms of worship that ignore or downplay the role of God and God’s actions in worship

a. Worship primarily done for ourselves or our own cultural audiences

b. Lectures, performance, professional-controlled, reducing worship to what audiences tolerate kinds of approaches

c. Gimmicks, series, gadgetry, shock value instead of consistent focus on God's cosmic drama in Christ

5. Overly therapeutic, self-centered spiritual formation strategies : crafting spirituality separate from the Story of God in Scripture

a. Reliance on “big personalities” and their methodologies to get our blessing and prosperity from God

b. Reducing spirituality to self-help techniques, legalistic strategies, or intellectual knowledge

c. Yielding to the influence of our therapeutic culture, interpreting spirituality in terms of personal benefit alone and not in terms of relationship to the triune God through Christ