Corporate Worship Midterm

What are the 4 Dimensions of Worship?

Educate, Encounter, Experience, and Evangelism

Lex Orandi

Practices

Lex Credendi

Belief

Norma Normans

Scripture

Norma Normata

Book of Concord

Gottesdienst

“God’s service”

Why is remembering a central theme in biblical worship?

past ideas are brought into the present

Four Ways (from Nairobi)

1. Transcultural - 

2. Cross Cultural 

3. Contextually 

4. Counter-Cultural

Cooking vs. Baking

1. Cooking - feels, artsy

   1. Community 

   2. To cook, you need to have training 

2. Baking - precision, science; consistent product 

   1. Like the form and structure of worship

   2. Going off book requires testing 

Gottesdienst

Divine Service

What are the three aspects of Gottesdienst?

1. Divine Service - God designed the service  

   1. Our Response to what God does 

2. Liturgy - God serving us (word and sacrament) 

   1. Issue with this word - Only what GOD gives TO us 

3. Worship - Our response 

   1. Issue with this word - only what WE do TOWARDS God

How do Lutherans view the relationship between practices and beliefs?

1. Our beliefs inform our practices

   1. Theologically this is a ONE WAY STREET (sola scriptura) 

   2. The way you practice something informs others what you believe (Sociologically) 

How do Catholics view the relationship between practices and beliefs?

1. TRADITION (capital T) over beliefs 

   1. Our practices inform our beliefs 

   2. They places traditions over scripture

Thick Description

the underlying meaning of an act (what it really means)

Thin Description

 layer of observation

Gift vs. Gap

1. Gift: sacrament manifest presence through praise

   1. Psalm 22:3 

   2. God inhabits our action of praise 

2. Gap:culture and christianity separation 

   1. Being relevant contextually 

   2. Gap between the way we’ve done things before and the way people wanna change worship practices to fit today (the lives of people in the 21st century)