Why traditional churches should stick with traditional worship
Why traditional churches should stick with traditional worship
By David Murrow
A FEW GROWN MEN
http://www.patheos.com/
April 17, 2013
I'm a member of Alaska's largest church. It's a lot like every other megachurch. We meet in a cavernous, windowless room with stage lighting and two huge projection screens. We're led by a rock band and a casually dressed pastor. The service lasts exactly 75 minutes. Our church draws a large crowd that attends sporadically. There's a relatively small, highly committed core of members that keeps the machine going.
I like my church. But it's in Anchorage, 26 miles from my house. So my wife and I occasionally worship at a small traditional church in our little town of Chugiak. (Let's call it St. Mark's)
We've been enjoying our Sundays at St. Mark's. The richness and rigor of the liturgy is refreshing after years of seeker-sensitive services. It's an eight-course meal, carefully measured out for us by church fathers - confession, forgiveness, praise, instruction, communion, giving, fellowship and benediction. It's like a spiritual multivitamin in an easy-to-swallow, hour-long pill.
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By David Murrow
A FEW GROWN MEN
http://www.patheos.com/
April 17, 2013
I'm a member of Alaska's largest church. It's a lot like every other megachurch. We meet in a cavernous, windowless room with stage lighting and two huge projection screens. We're led by a rock band and a casually dressed pastor. The service lasts exactly 75 minutes. Our church draws a large crowd that attends sporadically. There's a relatively small, highly committed core of members that keeps the machine going.I like my church. But it's in Anchorage, 26 miles from my house. So my wife and I occasionally worship at a small traditional church in our little town of Chugiak. (Let's call it St. Mark's)
We've been enjoying our Sundays at St. Mark's. The richness and rigor of the liturgy is refreshing after years of seeker-sensitive services. It's an eight-course meal, carefully measured out for us by church fathers - confession, forgiveness, praise, instruction, communion, giving, fellowship and benediction. It's like a spiritual multivitamin in an easy-to-swallow, hour-long pill.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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