Hauerwas, p. 100:

Patient listening and attentiveness are skills that are exercised, honed, and refined in Christian community.

But alas, the opposite often seems to eb the case. Far from being, as Hauerwas put it just prior to the above snippet,

Christians are called upon to recognize time aright, to attune themselves to a time that is God’s time. The context in which this attunement occurs is properly called worship.

I find this, rather, to be a stark blow to the “idea of worship” I see in the Churches today, a program that does ot lend itself to “lifting” me out of Chronos and into Kairos; but rather, force me to remove myself from the public gathering which is supposedly “corporately seeking God’s prescence” and resist what seems to be an invitaiton to “escape” rather than “over-accept” and “accept as gift” and “see time transformed” by its juxtaposition with “Kairos time” or God’s time.