Over the past decade or so, I’ve been grateful for the surge of interest in liturgy in my little circle of evangelicalism.
I know the term itself can be a little slippery. I’ve seen it applied to everything from an ancient prayer book to your morning coffee routine. But where it refers to an intentional structure for our weekly gatherings, liturgy captures something that ought to be precious to all of us.
Whether we recognize it or not, all of our gatherings have a liturgy. Our corporate liturgies affect us, and none of them is neutral. We’re shaped by what we regularly do in powerful ways we may not recognize. So much the wiser, then, to be intentional about what we’re doing and why. We must be careful to aim our service order at what will honor God and encourage each other.
But in our embrace of liturgy, there’s also a danger to avoid. Liturgies are tools we develop and deploy. Whether we draw them from an ancient sourcebook or build them in weekly staff meetings, we must realize that the order of our gathering is a strategy that we’ve decided is best. We have to guard against the assumption
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