Liturgical Foot Prints

Printed forms of liturgy in the worship bulletin or no?

“The right balance, it would seem, would be an orderly approach that employs Biblically based historical liturgical forms, while leaving room for free prayers and the work of the Spirit. Again, the practice of the early church provides guidance. While moderate liturgical worship developed very early (with use of the Ten Commandments, Creed, Confession, Lord's Prayer), the responsive litanies (e.g. santus, sursum corda, kyrie eleison, the peace), are mainly a later development. Worship that employs only fixed forms is stifling. The complete absence of fixed forms, however, may leave the church unnecessarily vulnerable to the every changing cultural-ecclesiastical environment.”

Terry L. Johnson in Leading in Worship, p. 7

G. Mark Sumpter