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First the structure of a liturgy can free a community from human ego and give the Spirit of God space to work. Structure actually promotes freedom, expression and creativity. This may seem counter-intuitive. It may seem that having an order of service, especially such a traditional one, would be stifling – I will admit that I have been to some liturgical services tha...

The one little thing in a liturgical service that should and could be easily adopted by every church – and which is commonly lacking in most modern evangelical services – is the reading of scripture. Every single week in a liturgical service the community hears large sections of the Old and New Testaments read to them out loud – the primary manner in whic...

So we’ve been doing our thing, Mercy Community, for almost a year and some good stuff is going on. But, to be quiet honest I’ve been a bit disappointed. Now much of that may be our own fault. We may have jumped the gun a little on starting our worship service. Maybe we should h...

We had our first service last Sunday night. We didn't really remind anyone about it, so it was only Jessi, Ian, Cosette and I. That was alright, because it gave us a chance to run through what for us is a very new way of doing a church service. It went great. Here is our order of service.