To find the feeling, to awaken the senses, deep thought and awakening of the conscience are necessary.
Additionally, we need constant discernment about our habits and attitudes.
We need to respond more 'deeper' to ourselves and our surroundings.
It's never easy to step back from ourselves and examine our ingrained habits and attitudes.
Questions from the 'outside' are needed to allow us to look at ourselves from a different perspective and discern what is blocking our growth.
And there is a price to pay for maintaining a critical distance from familiar ways of thinking, feeling, and acting.
Awakening your senses involves thinking and feeling in new and fresh ways and changing your life accordingly.
This is especially true when it comes to moral and religious habits.
--- p.15

The four characteristics of true and proper Christian worship, and the qualities to which we should pay attention when seeking such worship, are awe, delight, truthfulness, and hope.
This is called 'sense' because it refers to the way humans experience God.
Also, these are the places where we gather to read the Bible, pray at the baptismal font, and sing hymns at the altar.
And these are also themes that resonate when proclaiming the gospel.
In this book, we will examine how we perceive these four qualities, why they fade and fade, and how we can restore or deepen them in our community's worship.
In this context, I will also focus on how the restoration of awe, joy, truth, and hope is connected to the bodily sensations.
Because worship relies on our abilities to hear, see, touch, move, smell, and taste.
Christian worship is implemented through the body, within society, and under the influence of a certain culture, so it is bound to be influenced to that extent when the senses are limited.
Prayer and song constitute the language of our hearts.
Knowledge of God is not mere knowledge.
The activity of proclaiming and hearing the Word fundamentally relies on the nonverbal nature of Christian liturgical action.
And these nonverbals are related to the sensations of our body.
That's why this book explores how our body's senses, feelings, and complex emotions relate to our perception of God.
What is clear is that spiritual knowledge of God permeates our bodies and minds through our senses, through the social body given by the Holy Spirit, that is, the Church.
--- p.18

The gap between “who we ought to be” and “who we are” creates a constant tension in all Christian worship that seeks truth.
We are called to continually offer thanksgiving and praise.
Meanwhile, responding to God who gave himself includes remembering God's story (creation, covenant, prophecy, incarnation, and fulfillment of the promise to all creation) that gathers us in Jesus Christ.
At the same time, these stories tell us who we are and what kind of world God wants for us.
This means that if we want to hear the Word and receive the life that God gives, we must also accept the truth about ourselves.
Accepting God involves facing the truth about humanity.
--- p.77~78

We tend to believe that we are humble before God and kind to others.
That's why we don't often ask ourselves, "Are we truly true? Are we genuine?"
In today's culture, where forgetfulness and deception have permeated our way of life, it has become more difficult to ask this question.
The fact that the status of public relations officers has risen in the political world clearly demonstrates this.
And this also affected the worship of the church.
Too many Christians think it's okay to lie or be dishonest about small things, and they're adept at finding fault with others behind their backs.
It's easy to criticize others by labeling them as "conservative" or "progressive."
In the same vein, both 'evangelical' and 'Catholic' believers, those who value 'sermon-centered' worship and those who value 'sacrament-centered' worship, tend to think they know each other well and to believe that there is a clear difference between 'them' and 'us.'
So, rather than learning from others, they are only focused on strengthening their own legitimacy.

--- p.83~84

The hope that Christianity talks about is not optimism.
The courtesy and optimism that we, as people living relatively comfortable lives in North America, exhibit is reflected in many aspects of church life.
But if our praise, prayers, and preaching replace naive optimism with Christian hope, we will find ourselves increasingly unable to trust God's promises.
If our worship only offers comfort and consolation without inspiring a yearning for God's promises to be fulfilled, the gospel we preach will be only half-baked.
If worship doesn't help us realize our need for grace, but instead subtly reinforces the idea that we can improve ourselves and our circumstances through our own efforts, the gospel will be completely ruined.

--- p.113