Congregational Participation
By Ron Man - Worship Leaders - March 11, 2010
| | In that now famous quote by Kierkegaard, he stresses that the members of the congregation are the "performers" with God as the "audience" (and not the congregation as the audience to performers on the platform). In other words, worship is something done by God's people not for God's people.
Congregational participation in corporate worship is in fact a direct application of the biblical doctrine of (and the Reformation reemphasis on) the priesthood of all believers: unlike Israel, we have no priestly mediators who perform the rituals of worship on our behalf ...read more |
