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Redeeming:GOD AND THE WORD  \npage 5  \n2 Responding and Proclaiming:WORSHIP9  \n3 Needing and Cooperating:  \nLUTHERAN BOOK OF WORSHIP15  \n4 Deciding and Doing:RUBRICS,WORSHIP SPACE,AND THE CHURCH YEAR 22  \n5 Remembering and Receiving:HOLY COMMUNION41  \n6 Washing and Entering:  \nHOLY BAPTISM60  \n7 Praying and Caring:DAILY PRAYERS AND OTHER RITES73  \n8 Singing and Praising:  \nHYMNS,CANTICLES,AND PSALMS84  \n90  \nGLOSSARY  \n# God and the Word\n\nGod and the Word  \nWe are Christians because we have met Jesus Christ,heard hisinviting Word,and responded to him in faith.As members of hischurch,we gather each Sunday to hear the Word and express ourfaith,and have it renewed and deepened.In this gathering,certainactivities are done.We come together,we confess our sin,welisten to the Word read and preached.We sing hymns,we pray forothers,we offer gifts,and we take part in the meal of the Lord.These activities make up Christian worship.Yet we often do notunderstand why these particular things are done in our gatherings.And if we are asked,\"What exactly is it that is going on?\",we mayfind it extremely difficult to explain.One major purpose of this studyis to help us understand and interpret what Christian worship is.  \nVery often we hear that worship involves giving to God the highest\"worth\"or\"value.\"After all,our word worship comes from anAnglo-Saxon word worth-ship,meaning \"to place value upon.\"AsChristians we acknowledge and affirm God's worth and recognizehim as the highest value in human life.The Psalmist reminds us,\"Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name\"(Ps.29:2 NEB).In thenew Communion liturgy we sing,“Worthy is Christ the Lamb whowas slain.\"Yet to define the most characteristic activity of theChristian community as “recognition of God's supreme worth”canbe misleading.For when we read the Scriptures,we discover thatnotions of value or worth are secondary.The primary emphasis isupon the God who draws near to his people and makes himselfknown to them.And as Christians we claim a concrete and visiblemanifestation of this self-giving of God:a person named JesusChrist.“The Word became flesh and lived among us”(John 1:14TEV).It is this self-giving action of God that invites and makespossible a response and a commitment of a people through its wor-ship.  \nAny consideration of Christian worship needs to reckon with andtake seriously this activity of God on us,in us,and on our world.Worship is not created by us,nor does our doing of worship bringforth God.As J.G.Davies reminds us in his book Worship andMission,\"Worship is primarily something that God does,in the sense  \nthat it is Christ who baptizes through the Spirit and it is Christwho through the Spirit presides at the eucharist.It is a mis-take therefore to think of worship exclusively as something ad-dressed by man to God;it is first and foremost God's approach toman,which then elicits man's response.\"1 Thus,our immediate con-cern is not with forms of worship but with exploring how God comesto us,how he is related to us,and how we become aware of hisself-giving presence.The fundamental principle of any believingcommunity,a principle rooted in the vision and experience of Chris-tian faith,is that God actually addresses people here and now.Christian tradition in general and Lutheran tradition in particular usethe expression “Word of God”to understand this encounter betweenthe divine and the human.  \n# What kind of word?\n\nWhen we look at the Scriptures,we see several meanings for theexpression \"Word of God.\"In the first verses of the Old Testament,we read that God's Word created the universe:“And God said....\"He speaks and it is so.In short,God's Word not only says something,it does something;performs something.By uttering his Word,thepower and presence of God become visible and tangible in thisworld.His Word creates the world,shapes history,and calls every-thing to life.It is a word which produces what it says.God 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