Worship Quotables

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  And every priest stands daily at this service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.  But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until His enemies should be made a footstool for His […]
• A Singing Faith
  The older I get, the more I want to sing my faith and get others singing it with me. Theology, as I constantly tell my students, is for doxology: the first thing to do with it is to turn it into praise and thus honour the God who is its subject, the God in whose […]
• Being the Church
  I take Schmemann’s point to be the following.  Many members of the church think of it as a service organization catering to their religious or spiritual needs and desires. The clergy enact the liturgy for the benefit of those who find it spiritually nourishing and edifying.  It is to this functional understanding of the church that […]
• Facing God
  Christians do not enact the liturgy in order to placate God, they do not enact the liturgy in order to keep themselves in God’s good graces, they do not enact the liturgy in order to keep their ledgers on the positive side, they do not enact the liturgy in order to center themselves. They assemble to […]