Thursday, August 21, 2014

Thoughts on Liturgical Worship

Some thoughts on liturgical worship.

Focusing on desire underlines our need for God to refine what drives us, including our 
liturgical behavior. As we allow God to expose, test, and refine our desires, we will be pushed to change how we participate in, direct and preside over, or revise and steward liturgical forms: connecting together the mind, emotions, and body and enlivening the feedback loop between liturgy and ethics. We might also discover how to live in greater union with other Christians, based on principles other than whether or not they worship liturgically. Without a commitment to these processes, the movement to promote liturgy within evangelicalism runs the risk of becoming a fad failing to produce lasting impact.

You can read the rest here.

No comments: