When I was a boy, churches in the Reformed tradition always printed the Order of Worship in their church bulletins, and they commonly began something like this: Votum Salutation Invocation Doxology. . .     Today, we don’t seem to have a common order of worship anymore, and I think that we may have lost […]

I want to talk about “liturgy.” The more old-fashioned among us will remember that we used to talk about “Order of Worship” or even the “Service of the Word.” It seems to me that the adherents of modern liturgism have several not-to-he·despised things in their favor. For once one has mastered the Romanizing tenets of Protestant […]