I saw this article in Christianity Today today called 'Teaching a Calvinist to Dance: In Pentecostal worship, my Reformed theology finds its groove.' by James K. A. Smith. I found it very interesting. In it he talks about how in his view reformed theology is best worked out in the pentecostal style of worship. An interesting idea. One thing I definitely do agree on is that generally speaking, in my experience evangelicals and many Anglicans are very bad at engaging the whole person in a church service. We have good sermons, but fail to engage the heart, and body. Almost as if we are afraid of creating moving and emotional people. I liked that in this article Smith reminds us that we are whole people, created good by God and that it is ok to engage with the whole person in a church service. Here is a quote...

Reformed folk, particularly in the Dutch tradition of Kuyper and Dooyeweerd, often emphasize the "goodness of creation"— that God created a material universe that he pronounced "very good" (Gen. 1:31). And although it is fallen, God is redeeming this world, not redeeming us out of it. An important piece of that affirmation is the goodness of embodiment—the goodness of the stuff we bump into, the bodies we inhabit.

But that's precisely why I've always found it a bit strange that Reformed worship so often treats human beings as if we're brains-on-a-stick. All week long we talk about how good creation is, how good embodiment is. But then we have habits of worship that merely deposit great ideas in our heads, making us rather cerebral disciples. Despite all our talk about the goodness of creation and embodiment, in Reformed worship the body doesn't show up that much.

Pentecostals, on the other hand, embody their spirituality. I would argue that Pentecostal worship is the extension of the Reformed intuition about the goodness of creation and the goodness of embodiment...

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