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About our order of worship:
The essence of true worship is covenant renewal.
Dialogical: Throughout the service, God speaks to us and we respond. Worship is
a conversation.
Call to worship: God calls His people out of the world to gather in His presence.
He graciously takes hold of us and brings us near to Himself. He is the God who
seeks and saves.
Confession and Forgiveness: As a people who continue to sin in this life we
become fully aware, especially in the presence of God, of our great guilt and
therefore we confess ourselves sinners and look to Christ alone for the ground of
our salvation. In worship we do this both privately and corporately. Those truly
repentant in faith receive the forgiveness of God.
Consecration: God speaks to us through His Word read, sung and preached. We,
His people, respond by giving ourselves and our gifts in Christ as offerings. We
attend to the preaching of God's Word as if Christ Himself were speaking to us
in everything the pastor speaks that is consistent with the Scriptures. It is in the
preaching that we hear the Gospel. The good news of God's sovereign Grace in
Christ.
Communion: God invites us to commune with Him and our brethren at His
Table, and we respond by remembering His covenant and enjoying His faithful
provisions at the sacramental meal. It is in the Lord's Supper that we see the
Gospel.
Commission and Benediction: God blesses us and charges us to extend His
kingdom into the future and into the world. We are dismissed from God's special
presence, renewed and equipped for this task.
What do people here think of the Covenant Renewal? I heard it in a conversation yesturday and I was like..."What does that mean?"
Covenant Renewal is a fact in biblical history. It is sacerdotal in ecclesiastical worship. I forget who pointed this out to me, but the reformed "liturgy" is concerned with gospel proclamation from the call to worship to the benediction.
Pastor Winzer, I'm not sure I follow. When you have the opportunity, could you please flesh out your thoughts on this a bit more for us slow to comprehend folks?
I suppose my main question regarding Covenant Renewal worship is where in the N.T. do we find any hint that the Covenant of Grace is in need of weekly renewal?
I don't know what the substance of the movement is so I don't reject it in toto but the superficial amount of stuff I've seen on the internet seems like Anglican/ romish ceremonialism, such as repeating a responsorial prayer and ritualisticly ingesting the host every week.