Article on Liturgy
As someone who believes that worship services are more than simply warm-up for the sermon, parts of this article made me very happy. I am very glad that more Evangelical churches are moving toward more frequent communion and adding more to worship services than songs and a sermon. It's great and I think it does justice to many Biblical presentations of corporate worship.
I know there are some who object to more "structured" services and weekly (or frequent) communion on the grounds that it "looks Roman Catholic." To that, I ask this: if someone is getting something right, they're getting it right. One thing I appreciate about liturgy, which encompasses aspects of the historic Christian faith, saturated with Scripture, and great singing with a sermon that compliments the entire service and frequent communion, is that no one is the "star" and the service can be reverent with older styles of music, or more contemporary, or jazz styles.
It's great.
I know there are some who object to more "structured" services and weekly (or frequent) communion on the grounds that it "looks Roman Catholic." To that, I ask this: if someone is getting something right, they're getting it right. One thing I appreciate about liturgy, which encompasses aspects of the historic Christian faith, saturated with Scripture, and great singing with a sermon that compliments the entire service and frequent communion, is that no one is the "star" and the service can be reverent with older styles of music, or more contemporary, or jazz styles.
It's great.




1 Comments:
I agree on the "star" thing. I kinda get sick of the star pastor or star musician mentality, particularly when the worship is only peripheral to the service and everything is about the sermon, sermon length, etc, rather than all of it working for the same goal. With communion at the end, everything leads back into Christ. As for the "looks Roman Catholic," argument. Have they not had a logic course? I get that comment a lot too. I was patient with it at first, but it starts to get under my skin a bit.
I haven't had my coffee yet this morning, I must be a bit cranky. :)
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