instincts, while also activating the faculties of the physical body or muting them, as the case may be; and it solidifies and reconfigures identity and over time generates a certain way of being in the world. Gesture in worship, for instance, forms us in its own ways. It does so by training Christlikeness in sensory, bodily manner. When hands are raised upward, this is a way for physical bodies to acquire a “feel for the game,” to use a common sports metaphor. Hands raised upward engender at their