Rants: In Pursuit Of Liturgy

The church I grew up in was overbearingly liturgical. Granted, overbearing is a personal opinion but it is one I will defend. I know there are other churches with more rote or ritual, but for a small Nazarene church, we had a stagnant order of worship. It wasn’t the most liturgical church on the face of the planet, but there was enough routine to be predictable. I could tell you when our worship leader would ask the congregation to stand, and when he would tell us “you may be seated” before either order was given. I knew when a certain pastor preached we would get a lesson in church history and Greek vocabulary. To this day, I can still recite the exact order of worship for both the Sunday morning and Sunday evening worship services/ Nic , Rants, Raves & Random Thoughts. More here .

• Springtime Memory for Heads or Tales /Tumblewords
• Rebuilding organized religion /Wayward Episcopalian
• Tiz been a fortnight and the winner is /Marmitetoasty
• Get Out! moving to Sundays /Get Out! North Idaho
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Question (for church attenders): How do you prefer your Sunday church service — liturgical, nontraditional, or informal?

• Novena of Grace, Day 3 /Accidental Rabbit Trails
• Soldier Boy makes mom’s day /Mrs. Mac Energetic
• In the year of our cousins /Slight Detour
• Quandary /Nuts & Nonsense
• Time to think /Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• My definition of March Madness /It’s Just Me
• All in the name of ice cream /Hauser Thoughts
• The weirdest of times /Simple Mind
• Mother Nature’s playpen /Bay Views
• Does anyone know what day it is?/ Atmospheric Ruminations

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