Quote of the Week
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Aug 19, 2019: The Christian Year is a Gift
What we are experiencing in the recovery of the church year is not something new or gimmicky. The church year is a gift to the church given by the Holy Spirit as a way of enriching our relationship to Jesus Christ—of restoring a sacred sense of time to our worship. It has withstood the test of time and demonstrated by its staying power that it is worthy of our adoption today.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 174-175. -
Aug 12, 2019: Avoiding Sameness in Worship
I have found that worship which does not follow the church year is often characterized by sameness. . . . a routine that tends to dull the richness of our faith. But worse than that is the experience of having major feast days such as Christmas and Easter go by without adequate preparation for them and no larger context in which they can be understood. . . . The church calendar year provides us not only with a variety of events to celebrate but also with varied periods of intensity and relaxation in our worship.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 171. -
Aug 5, 2019: Which Calendar? Spiritual vs. Secular Events
By not following the Christian calendar we have come to adopt secular guidelines for our spiritual time. Christ has again become lost in our celebration of time, not because of too many saints’ days and feasts, but because of our celebration in worship of too many other days—national holidays like Independence Day and special events like Mother’s Day.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 170. -
Jul 29, 2019: Spiritual Practice of the Christian Year
Somewhere in my background I picked up the idea that spirituality consists mainly in setting aside a time for morning and evening devotions. . . . But I’ve come to believe there is more to my commitment to Christ than that. And for me, that “something more” is in the personal observance of the church year as a spiritual discipline.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 162. -
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