Worship as Education

St. Paul's Lutheran, Hamel, IL

Pastor Larry Peters has posted on the benefits of worship for our theological education. Here is a choice nugget:

It is a profound truth that we discover who we are and whose we are primarily through worship. It is our encounter with the living God. It is where we tread lightly upon the holy ground of His real presence. It is the place where we surrender preference to truth and where we learn to love that living truth instead of turning that truth into something we can love. I wonder if this was not at the root of Luther's bold phrase that he was captive to the Word of God. I hope that we are all captive to the Word in that way. Oh, that is not to say that Luther is the end all but if submitting reason and experience to the living Word is what he meant, then he got that right.

I recommend giving the entire post a read.