In the Lords Service

The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship by Jeffrey J. Meyers

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School for the Lords Service by Fr. Newer Posts Older Posts. Looking Back on a Life of Service Fr. I will also commend Meyers for how practically useful this book is for churches who are tryin This was my second time through the book.

I will also commend Meyers for how practically useful this book is for churches who are trying to sort through how to approach this topic. I think Meyers provides a great foundation covenant renewal for liturgy. For a more poetic appreciation of liturgy and sacraments - you must read Schmemann's "For the Life of the World", but he will just sound like a hippy to you if you're not already convinced of the importance of liturgical worship. Feb 08, Timothy Nichols rated it it was amazing.

If you're ministering in a context where you will have to do some liturgical innovation or design, you need to read this book. Myers gives a good overview of the biblical imagery and theology behind Christian liturgy. This book will make you think, hard -- but the chapters are also relatively short, so it comes in digestible chunks.

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When my church plant was wrestling with what to do on Sunday mornings, this book was invaluable to me. Now that I'm ministering in a radically different context than If you're ministering in a context where you will have to do some liturgical innovation or design, you need to read this book.

Now that I'm ministering in a radically different context than before, I'm thinking I should read it again, just to 'freshen up. But evangelicalism is awash in ways to worship poorly, so it's a valuable starting point. Apr 29, Gray rated it it was amazing. The silliness that permeates modern evangelical worship is mind numbing; it almost begs the question: The King of king's and Lord of lord's is deserving of all honor and glory, and the simpering childishness that passes for tribute is a sad commentary of the current state of the church in the U.

The church militant is defintely not the image currently presented. This book lays an excellent foundation to restore the honor that God deserves to be given. If, by the grace of God, the American evangelical culture could one day regain the discipline as outlined herein, the name of God would not be as readily blasphemed by the heathen. Dec 24, Christopher Waugh rated it it was amazing Shelves: This, coupled with Mother Kirk, was the primary theological and liturgical work that convinced me of the Reformed liturgical tradition.

What's truly great about this book is the common sense approach it brings to the debate over the forms of proper worship acceptable on the Lord's Day. It is not reactionary, as so many other polemics often are, but reformational-- namely that it aims to restore a truly biblical piety and practice to the Church.

The essay on restoring our children to the Lord's T This, coupled with Mother Kirk, was the primary theological and liturgical work that convinced me of the Reformed liturgical tradition. The essay on restoring our children to the Lord's Table is incredibly important today, not just for Reformed churches, but for every church that wishes to include every member of the Body of Christ in the Lord's nourishment and grace. Jul 22, Ryan rated it it was amazing.

The juvenilization of current American Evangelicalism and the silly childishness that saturates its idea of sunday worship is wearisome. It is a movement that has neglected to go to the Word of God to pattern its Sunday worship. Instead it finds its pattern from a culture that is for the most part, completely against the God of the Bible. I wonder if there is a blinding to the times of the age going one.

If you are a Christian who lives in the twenty first century, read this! You will be enlightened! Apr 11, Matt Carpenter rated it really liked it Shelves: This book is the foundational text for the reawakening of liturgical worship among many conservative Presbyterians in the U. It is a study of worship that begins with the sacrificial system of the Old Testament and uses the typology of those sacrifices to interpret the limited directions for worship in the New Testament.

The end result is a biblical guide to worship that honors the regulative principle while giving greater flexibility than the old Puritan interpretation of the regulative princ This book is the foundational text for the reawakening of liturgical worship among many conservative Presbyterians in the U. The end result is a biblical guide to worship that honors the regulative principle while giving greater flexibility than the old Puritan interpretation of the regulative principle because it is informed by the Old Testament types.

Mar 30, Shep rated it it was amazing. Eye-opening, thorough, and well-written. Jeffrey Meyers connects the covenants to worship in a Scriptural manner that aids readers in understanding what the meaning of worship is and what the worship service is all about. Meyer's positions on certain elements of worship will be controversial to some, but his arguments are well-thought out and cannot be cheaply discarded.

While I disagree with Meyers on a few points, overall I agree with and benefited greatly from this amazing book. This is one o Eye-opening, thorough, and well-written. This is one of the best, if not THE best, book on worship out there. Nov 13, Aaron rated it really liked it. This book is a great explanation of Covenant Renewal Worship and it's place in a reformed service.

From a RPW perspective, I still have a difficult time seeing where this is regulated in new covenant worship. Are we to continue to worship in the shadows? Did the primitive churches apostolic period worship in this way? If not, are we regulating ourselves according to 2nd century tradition? These are all questions that I was left to grapple with. However, the service designed as such is thorough This book is a great explanation of Covenant Renewal Worship and it's place in a reformed service.

However, the service designed as such is thoroughly Reformed and for that I cannot completely ignore it. Apr 23, Luke rated it really liked it Shelves: Thorough treatment of Biblical approach to worship. Makes a compelling argument for God's initiating action in worship rather than the people doing all the work of worship.

Not exactly a new conception for this reader, though I will admit that I didn't realize the vast implications that Meyers presents in regards to this approach. Meyers is insightful throughout, though many times is long winded and likely to bog down the reader. Feb 03, Megan rated it really liked it Shelves: A very illustrative book on the importance of liturgical theology and liturgical practice in the modern Church. Written to be accessible to non-seminarians, Meyers explains liturgy as covenant renewal worship based on the pattern of Old Testament sacrifice.

I found this book to be very helpful in providing a framework for thinking about liturgy and for understanding why we do what we do and when in worship. Jun 04, Kris rated it it was amazing. I read this in , shortly after reading Jordan's Thesis on Worship. The Lord's Service serves as a pastoral out working of the ideas presented in brief by Jordan--though not central to them. I remember most clearly the essay on why the author wears a clerical collar when out in public. What used to be the norm for ordained ministers has now been abandoned by virtually all evangelical pastors.

Meyers has found that wearing a collar opens up many ministry opportunities in public settings.

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