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

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

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

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

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

The Borrowers The Adaptors The Developers

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

The Shape of

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

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

The Shape of

Synagogue Worship “They went to Capernaum;

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

Mark 1:21

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

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

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

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

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Emerging “Christian” WorshipThe House Church

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Emerging “Christian” Worship

The Basilica

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Early Christian Worship

The Dome

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

The Middle Ages

The Cathedral

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

The “Modern” Age

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

congregation

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

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

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

What’s Wrong with “Tradition”?

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

What’s Wrong with “Tradition”?

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Things Change…

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

… And They Stay the Same

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

New Principles for Worship Space

Forms Christians Builds Community Glorifies God

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

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

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Baptism as Entrance… Baptism as central to

Christian Identity (and worship)

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

St. Charles Borromeo, London

Word as

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

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Table as Nurturing Intimate Domestic Elevated meal Model – Last Supper

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Inspirations….

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Elements… Baptismal Entrance

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Elements… Baptismal Entrance Word Among Us

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Elements… Baptismal Entrance Word Among Us Nurturing Meal

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

Elements… Baptismal Entrance Word Among Us Nurturing Meal Apostolic

Leadership

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

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

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship

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

Christ

New Occasions Teach New Duties An Advent Experiment in Worship