ArticleBlog | Assembling an act of worship in a digital age
Assembling an act of worship in a digital age
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 09.09.15
When CODEC was asked to prepare the weekly college communion service, the biggest issue for us was how not to make the service so different that it completely alienated the congregation. Worship after all is the worship of the people – the offering of ourselves as living sacrifices, our reasonable or spiritual act of worship (Romans 12).
That act is a corporate act, borne out of the authenticity of our community together (John 4:21–24, 1 Corinthians 12–14), the gathering together of a congregation which offers its very best to God in a act of spiritual worship. Indeed, that passage in John could be interpreted to mean that our worship has to be authentic to our specific congregation – owned by us. Jesus criticises the Samaritans for not understanding worship properly (they had rejected the concept of Jerusalem as the central place of worship and established an alternative cult centre on Mount Gerizim) and argues that since salvation
