Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of four articles on the design of a corporate worship gathering. 9Marks does not promote one way to go about the design of a worship service. Nevertheless, this is a good example of how one pastor taught his church about corporate worship and liturgy design. Here is Part 1.
We’ve been using the metaphor of church architecture as a way to think about the design of our Lord’s Day services. In designing a building, consideration is given to its parts, flow, and sight lines in the auditorium. Plenty of care will go into this.
But more important than the shape of our meeting space is the shape of our meeting. What are its parts, and how do they flow from one to another? Those are the questions we will consider in this post.
Another way to put this is, “What is our liturgy?” Liturgy is a Latin word that means work on behalf of the people. At our church, we typically call it our “order of worship” or “service design.”
Remember, we want our gathering to be formed and filled by the Word of God. This post is about the “formed”
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