March 12, 2013

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Proclaiming our Faith in Worship: How We Are Tethered to Our Story One of the main reasons we gather as the people of God is to remind ourselves of who God is, what He has done to make us His people, and what it means to live as the people of God here and now. One of the key ways we do this is by proclaiming things that the Church has proclaimed throughout the centuries. When we rehearse these truths about God together, we remembed that we aren't the first ones to travel thie Way, and that we aren't the only ones who are following Christ now. In making these proclamations part of our worship, we keep ourselves tethered to the Story of God and His people. Watch this 2-minute first: Excerpt #1 from Chapter 3 of "Discover the Mystery of Faith": The object of our faith is a Person, not a proposition. We do not place our lives in an idea or a doctrine or a system or a set of values. We place ourselves in the personal God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Proclaiming the creed, then, is an act of worship, not a recitation of doctrine. Faith, after all, is not simple agreement or the acknowledgment of certain propositions or hypotheses. Faith is the placing of your whole life within God, the only One who is faithful enough to hold your life, redeem it, and save it. There is no worship without faith, and there is no faith without worship. It is faith that leads us to worship and worship that enlarges our faith. Why should our greatest, most central and unifying profession of faith, the Nicene Creed, not be part of our congregational worship? ...Early Christians spoke these words of worship and belief in the face of ridicule and scorn, confessed and clung to these words even when...

Glenn Packiam

Lead Pastor, new life DOWNTOWN, New Life Church, Colorado Springs, CO. Author and songwriter.

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