In the United States today, for a great many people, Christmas is the time when you put up a tree and take the kids to the mall to see Santa Claus and tell him all the things they want for gifts. For others, Christmas is a family holiday, a time when families get together, eat […]
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In another post we looked briefly at the question “What is Liturgy?” We saw that liturgy simply refers to the things that a congregation does in service to God when it gathers for public worship. In this post I want to wrestle with the question “What should a congregation do when it gathers to worship?”
Many people in the Protestant evangelical world when they hear this word it likely conjures up images of an austere man wearing a funny hat, walking up the center aisle of a cathedral waving a smoking pole. In the background a choir sings in an unknown language. Liturgy is a “Roman Catholic” word in the
