Liturgy

I am a fan of liturgy. While I realize all churches have a liturgy of some sort whether it be the structure of a Catholic mass or the 25-5-30 format.
So, to clarify, I love the traditional liturgy. Hand me the Book of Common Prayer. Tell me what year and Sunday of common time we are in. Light some candles. Greet one another with 'Peace be with you'. Follow scripture readings with 'Thanks be to God'.
Regardless of your preferred liturgy, I think Jared made some good points ...

One gentleman asked what I thought about liturgy. I said that it was the food of the church. I talked about how some things in Christianity are moments of power, sacraments, sermons, stuff like that. Where you hear or do something and immediately reflect on it and your life. Liturgy, however, changes you slowly. It’s like water eroding the bank of a river, slowly forming you after a certain image. Because of the slow nature of liturgical formation, that made it much more powerful . . . and much more dangerous. Because it meant that bad liturgy, or liturgy with questionable theology, could form you in ways of which you were unaware. So, we should be careful with our liturgy, because it’s a pretty powerful thing.

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