Grammar Class on Sundays
“…some have compared worship to the process of mastering a foreign tongue.
‘We must learn Christianity,’ writes William Willimon, ‘even as we learn a foreign language.’
Peter Leithart suggests that ‘worship is language class, where the Church is trained to speak Christian.’
One learns a language by mastering difficult rules through repetition. We have no hope of speaking any language fluently if its conjugations and declensions change every week.”
D. G. Hart and John Muether in the book, With Reverence and Awe, p. 59.
Dorothy Sayers gave lectures in 1947 at Oxford University on a method of teaching children called the Trivium. The poll-parrot stage capitalizes on a younger child’s ability to gobble up facts easily, store them away and recite them back.
Similar to children in their learning, in public worship, the mastery of words, order and routines will come by heart with repetition and recitation.
G. Mark Sumpter
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