If we were to ask church members - not necessarily only ones who show up on Sundays - what they expect to get out of the Sunday liturgy (I mean this in a broad sense to include both the Divine Liturgy and forms of Sunday service in Protestant and Catholic churches), I wonder what we would learn.
Putting the question that way is crass and even offensive, I know. We worship God out of thanksgiving, gratitude, acknowledgement. However, in a consumerist culture I think this is the approach many people take to their liturgical participation.
It seems that church members understand crass and offensive better than anything else.
ReplyDeleteI think that may well be - at least when it comes to expectations about worship! But I wonder about where such expectations have come from in the first place. Hasn't the church played a role in forming those expectations?
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