On Corporate Worship

6 May 2025

The role of the people in services of corporate worship is [. . .] a most important one. If it is true that, in a sense, a liturgy is a drama, then is it likewise true that in the Lutheran church all worshipers are not merely onlookers, but dramatis personae, performers of the Liturgy, Onlookers may dream away time and while away the moments, but performers must be alert and on the job; they must exert themselves and put forth effort. Those who fault The Lutheran Liturgy, who see in it only a form and little that is of spiritual value, often betray with their remarks that they do not really participate as they should, but merely look on; [. . .] it would be well for them to begin with themselves before they fault others.

        Walter E. Buszin

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