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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Check out the free PGV music sheet download of my song “May the Peace of Christ” (chorus version) for use in your congregational worship.
Also, a new entry at ‘The New Liturgist‘ on the Peace of Christ and worshiping as community.

The Peace of Christ

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

One of the fundamental concerns of the New Liturgist is to promote worship as a communal event. It is always a challenge to move people from worshiping primarily as self-conscious individuals into a God and community conscious people. The subject and object of worship, the Triune God of grace, models a community of three persons who engage with each other in perichoretic harmony. If perichoresis is the notion of intentionally making room for the other, deferring without disengaging, then we have a worship model for human beings as well. God calls and draws us together week by week to worship as a people who are,

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Tags: community, Passing the peace

Reflections of the New Liturgist

February 3, 2011

Why the New Liturgist?

I have been involved in some form of worship leadership for 35 years now. This has been a voyage of discovering the great honour, delight, pain, tedium, and joy of worshiping before and with God’s people. I am grateful for the affirmation of my calling by many of God’s people in a variety of faith communities, who have drawn me forward into the mysterious and wonderful event we call worship of the living God. It is Christian worship in particular that I have been engaged with as a musician, pastor, family member, and friend, and to my ongoing surprise, it has also become . . .

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