“O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.”
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“O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” Psalm 96:9
The whole Word of God is, of course, applicable to every facet of the function of the church but, if we may single out the particular Word of God in I Corinthians 14 and apply it specifically to a singular ecclesiastical function, we would say that it especially applies to the worship of the church. We refer particularly to the exhortation in I Cor.
“O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” Psalm 96:9
“O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” Psalm 96:9
We are not yet ready to discuss our order of worship and to consider its various elements step by step. There are other matters pertaining to the idea and meaning of worship ‘that’ come first. It is imperative that before we try to understand what we do in our acts of worship, we realize the nature of worship itself. Without this our study cannot be meaningful. Worship must be scrutinized and carefully examined from its most profound motivation in the heart to its visible expression in the act.
We were quoting the last time from Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Although there is more in this work that is interesting and worthy of our attention, we will not quote it in its entirety now. Instead we will present a brief condensation of the history of liturgical practices in the early church. We noted that worship in the early church was largely patterned after the customs and traditions of the synagogue. Gradually changes were made.
To our liturgical study belongs all of those things that are included in our public worship. Some, we wrote in our previous article, want to exclude from this study the sermon or the preaching. The argument for this is twofold. First of all this objection points to the fact that the sermon and preaching belong to another theological science called Homiletics, and the second argument is that the sermon is non-prescriptive, that is, free according to its form. The preacher is not bound in his preaching by a liturgical form.
“O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” Psalm 96:9
“O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” Psalm 96:9
