The Meaning of Liturgy

   What happens when we “go to church”? 

   We are the Church and when we go into the place we have built as a worship space, we go as the Church to be among the people of God, the Body of Christ, to worship the one living God.

   We are a liturgical church.  That is, we follow the form of worship used by Jesus and by the vast majority of Christians who have ever lived and are now living.

   “Liturgy” means “the work of the people”.  Worship is our work, not God’s.  We don’t implore God to show up.  God commands us to show up.

   We come into God’s

presence and worship

 God.

   Worship is like a drama.  The  “leaders” are the prompters, the people are the actors, and God is the audience.

   The question at the end of a liturgical worship service, it’s been said, is therefore not “What did I get out of that?”, but “How did I do?”