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You are what you like. But you might not love what you think. In this reserve, award-winning author James K. A. Smith demonstrates who and what we worship fundamentally form our hearts. And while we prefer to form culture, we are not often alert to how culture patterns us. We would not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love competitor gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps listeners understand the formative electric power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian routines. He explains that worship is the "imagination place" that incubates our loves and longings so our cultural efforts are indexed toward God and his kingdom. That is why the chapel and worshiping in a local community of believers ought to be the hub and heart of Christian formation and discipleship. Following publication of his influential work Desiring the Kingdom, Smith received numerous requests from pastors and leaders for a far more accessible version of that book's content. No mere abridgment, this new reserve draws on years of Smith's popular presentations on the ideas in Desiring the Kingdom to provide a fresh, bottom-up re-articulation. The writer artistically uses film, books, and music illustrations to activate listeners and includes new material on relationship, family, youth ministry, and faith and work. He also advises individual and communal routines for shaping the Religious life.
