new occasions teach new duties

New Occasions Teach New DutiesAn Advent Experiment in Worship

“New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth; they must upward still and onward who would keep abreast of truth.”

James Russell Lowell

“Once to Every Man and Nation”

1845 (Common Praise # 587)

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

And Jesus said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”

Matthew 13:52



Liturgy (leitourgia) is a Greek composite word meaning originally a public duty, a service to the state undertaken by a citizen. Its elements are leitos (from leos = laos, people) meaning public, and ergo (obsolete in the present stem, used in future erxo, etc.), to do.

New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia

Why Worship? It is part of our created nature to

glorify our Creator It fulfills us as human beings Worship brings us closer to God Liturgy has the power to transform us


What are the origins of our Worship? The Ancients The Hebrews The Early Christians

The Borrowers The Adaptors The Developers


The Shape of

Synagogue Worship The Seat of Moses The Bema Menorah The Ark Orientation to Jerusalem


The Shape of

Synagogue Worship “They went to Capernaum;

and when the sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught.”

Mark 1:21


The Shape of

Synagogue Worship “When Jesus came to Nazareth,

where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom.”

Luke 4:16


The Shape of Synagogue Worship “The same thing occurred in

Iconium, where Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks became believers.

Acts 14:1


Emerging “Christian” WorshipThe House Church


Emerging “Christian” Worship

The Basilica


Early Christian Worship

The Dome


The Middle Ages

The Cathedral


The “Modern” Age

The Theatre Pews face forward High Capacity Emphasis on “performance” Passive, immobile

congregation


What’s Wrong with “Tradition”? Buildings serve worship Worship changes Buildings change


What’s Wrong with “Tradition”?


Things Change…


… And They Stay the Same


New Principles for Worship Space

Forms Christians Builds Community Glorifies God


Forming Christians Claimed in Baptism Formed by the Word Fed at the Table


Baptism as Entrance… Baptism as central to

Christian Identity (and worship)


St. Charles Borromeo, London

Word as

Transformational Spoken in the midst Close to the people Builds up community Dialogic in character


Table as Nurturing Intimate Domestic Elevated meal Model – Last Supper


Inspirations….


Elements… Baptismal Entrance


Elements… Baptismal Entrance Word Among Us


Elements… Baptismal Entrance Word Among Us Nurturing Meal


Elements… Baptismal Entrance Word Among Us Nurturing Meal Apostolic

Leadership


Practicalities For Advent Capacity 105 Easy Set-up “Warm Feeling”


Some Closing Thoughts It’s not about us It’s all about us Transformation Not entertainment Encounter with

Christ


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