Traditional Protestant Worship

Traditional Protestant worship has benefited from the findings of modern scholarship regarding early Christian practices. Like those involved in liturgical renewal, these Protestants recognize that worship is a celebration of God's saving deeds, a celebration that makes the benefit and power of God's healing action available to the worshiping community. During recent years many churches have experimented, separately and together, in the effort to be faithful to their own life and to find renewal. It is now possible to identify six convictions or principles that are emerging from this period of liturgical reform, principles that may help us think afresh the purpose, pattern, and practice of Christian worship. Retelling the Biblical Story. Authentic worship is rooted in the church's experience of the gospel, especially as it is expressed in the Bible and in the church's living experience through history. Churches are rediscovering the significance of "recital," the importance of rete…