“Our Lord speaks and we listen. His Word bestows what it says. Faith that is born from what is heard acknowledges the gifts, received with eager thankfulness and praise. Music is drawn in to this thankfulness and praise, enlarging and elevating the adoration of our gracious given God.
“Saying back to him what he has said to us, we repeat what is most true and sure. Most true and sure is his name which he put upon us with the water of our Baptism. We are his. This we acknowledge at the beginning of the Divine Service. Where his name is, there is he. Before him we acknowledge that we are sinners, and we plead for forgiveness. His forgiveness is given us, and we, freed and forgiven, acclaim him as our great and gracious God as we apply to ourselves the words he has used to make himself
known to us.
“The rhythm of our worship is from him to us, and then from us back to him. He gives the gifts, and together we receive and extol them. We build one another up as we speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Our Lord gives us his body to eat and his blood to drink. Finally his blessing moves us out into our calling, where his gifts have their fruition. How best to do this we may learn from his Word and from the way his Word has prompted his worship through the centuries. We are heirs of an astonishingly rich tradition. Each generation receives from those who went before and, in making that tradition of the Divine Service its own, adds what best may serve in its own day – the living heritage and something new” (Norman Nagel, Lutheran Worship, p6, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1987).
St Paul Lutheran Church embraces the liturgical traditions grounded in the Old and New Testaments. We hear God’s Word, we pray the Scriptures, and we receive His gifts in Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
This pattern was given by our Lord. We value what Christians have practiced for centuries and throughout the world. Our lives are shaped by a calendar of worship that teaches the whole Christian faith and life. For half a year our readings follow the life of Jesus (Advent until Ascension). The rest of the year our readings provide the Church with all that our Lord taught. In worship, this proclamation comes rich with music and visual imagery.
“Saying back to him what he has said to us, we repeat what is most true and sure. Most true and sure is his name which he put upon us with the water of our Baptism. We are his. This we acknowledge at the beginning of the Divine Service. Where his name is, there is he. Before him we acknowledge that we are sinners, and we plead for forgiveness. His forgiveness is given us, and we, freed and forgiven, acclaim him as our great and gracious God as we apply to ourselves the words he has used to make himself
known to us.
“The rhythm of our worship is from him to us, and then from us back to him. He gives the gifts, and together we receive and extol them. We build one another up as we speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Our Lord gives us his body to eat and his blood to drink. Finally his blessing moves us out into our calling, where his gifts have their fruition. How best to do this we may learn from his Word and from the way his Word has prompted his worship through the centuries. We are heirs of an astonishingly rich tradition. Each generation receives from those who went before and, in making that tradition of the Divine Service its own, adds what best may serve in its own day – the living heritage and something new” (Norman Nagel, Lutheran Worship, p6, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1987).
St Paul Lutheran Church embraces the liturgical traditions grounded in the Old and New Testaments. We hear God’s Word, we pray the Scriptures, and we receive His gifts in Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
This pattern was given by our Lord. We value what Christians have practiced for centuries and throughout the world. Our lives are shaped by a calendar of worship that teaches the whole Christian faith and life. For half a year our readings follow the life of Jesus (Advent until Ascension). The rest of the year our readings provide the Church with all that our Lord taught. In worship, this proclamation comes rich with music and visual imagery.
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