Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

P ART II: C HURCH P LANTING T OOLKIT • 319

B. Tendencies toward shallowness: the problem of ignoring historical worship practice of the Church

1. Create the rut of ignoring everything that has gone on before, concentrate on what we like and have done

2. Ignore the power of the Spirit to work in the past

3. Deny the anointing that God has given to his people throughout every era

4. Short-change those you lead by isolating them from their brothers and sisters of long ago

C. Views regarding Liturgical theology

1. Anabaptist view: reproduce NT practice unchanged

2. Lutheran, Anglican, Reformed view: biblical principles and changing conditions

3. Jewish synagogue practice : innovation (things included in the Jewish synagogue practice which were not contained in the OT)

4. Historic Christian practice : cultural, fluid, in line with Scripture

D. Doxological theology (cf. Robert Webber)

1. How Jewish and Christian worship can inform theology

2. Explaining precisely what is the tie between theology and worship: Phil. 2.5-11

3. Historical outline of theology through detailed study of worship

E. Key subject of liturgical theology: the liturgical calendar (the story of God in the service of the Church)

1. Judaism

a. Elaborate calendar of holy days in Judaism (similar in some respects to the Catholic calendar)