Sorry I haven't posted in quite awhile. Life gets in the way. Here is an excerpt from one of the books I've been reading,
Worship Old & New by Robert E. Webber. I will probably be quoting from this book and author quite a bit in future posts. He very clearly sets out many of my thoughts on religious practice and is informing my view on historical Christian worship.
"Because worship is the enactment of an event, the organization of worship is not left to the whim of creative people or community consensus. Rather, it is rooted in the historic meeting that has already taken place between God and his people. This meeting, enacted by God's people, is the organizing principle of worship. Therefore, the overriding feature of biblical enactment is the representation of history.
