What is worship, and can it be "planned"? Check out this post well worth reading over at Old Worship New. Here's an excerpt:
[As a liturgy planner,] I help organize the structure and framework on top of which worship is built—built by Christ and his bride (the Church) as they dance through the liturgy together. Even if I wanted to plan worship (which would be blasphemous), I couldn’t plan worship. Worship is an encounter with Christ whom I am incapable of incarnating or resurrecting.
I love the recognition that planning good liturgy is important. We need to be thoughtful about proclaiming the gospel (through the entire worship service, of course, not just the sermon!) in a way that is appropriate and beneficial and understandable for our particular context. But it's also important to acknowledge that planners and leaders of worship "can’t control [anyone's] inspiration at the hands of the living God."
Thoughts?
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