COURSE DESCRIPTION: Why do we worship Sunday after Sunday? Is worship intended for an “in group” to comfort and console? Is worship intended to equip for mission and service? Is worship for God or for us? As we explore these questions, we will discover tensions in worship: a God focus or a communal focus, a head focus or a heart focus, a structured worship or a free
worship, a universal church focus or a focus on the local assembly and its needs.
How we worship as a community will be informed by our roots in the Western Church’s liturgical tradition as well as by social and cultural experiences in a particular time and place. Through our conversations we will challenge and equip one another for the ongoing renewal of the worship life of the church.
Worship and Sacraments
COURSE PURPOSE: To gain insight into how the form and practice of Christian worship has developed historically and how it is practiced in the Lutheran tradition today.