Jesus and Smoothies

Often it seems that the difference between aesthetic or liturgical services is that aesthetic services are all about pomp and circumstance. Newer fresher worship is getting at something deeper than mere traditions. There is a case to be made, however, for the opposite.

Paul Zahl in his chapter on liturgical worship  in the book Exploring the Worship Spectrum says that theology must precede worship. This axiom is the core of liturgical worship, the focus is right thinking in worship. The new and fresh, simply for the sake of new and fresh comes off as fake and manipulative.

(An Anglican Priest agrees to let a hip young pastor use his building for a Sunday in the BBC comedy Rev.)