“Saying back to him what he has said to us, we repeat what is most true a 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.”
– Introduction, “Lutheran Worship” (6)
Question:
Does this understanding of the rhythm of worship still function in the church today? How does a church’s rhythm of worship reflect its confession of how one is justified before God?
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