Is the way you worship important?

[The Liturgist]

So, you have not read revelation; pretty clear what worship is like in the "new heaven and new earth".

Basically a worship that is eternal and surpasses even the best liturgy from the apex of Lutheran Orthodoxy in Leipzig or the height of Anglo Catholicism in London in 1924, or the apex of Greek Orthodox worship at the Hagia Sophia between the Triumph of Orthodoxy in 843 and the False Crusade of 1204, or the Gallican Rite in the 6th and 7th centuries, the Roman Rite, Ambrosian Rite, Mozarabic Rite, Sarum Rite and related uses in the 8th and 9th century, or the East Syriac liturgy before the genocide of Tamerlane in the 1100s, or the Coptic worship in Old Cairo before the Coptic language was suppressed in the vernacular by the Muslims, or the Armenian and Syriac Rites after release from poverty but before the Turkish Genocide of 1915, or the Russian Orthodox worship of Czarist Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, or the Georgian Orthodox liturgy in the 17th century (also the Russian Old Rite before the Nikonian reforms), or the Hagiopolitan liturgy under St. Cyril of Jerusalem and his successors in the fourth and fifth century, and that of Antioch in the late fifth and early sixth century - so much of our current liturgy actually originated in Jerusalem and Antioch at the time, such as the services in Holy Week such as the Paschal Triduum in the West and its Eastern and Oriental equivalents, and likewise in Antioch, such as the eight tone system of chant, the Presanctified and so on.

The chief difference being the immediate presence of Christ our True God visible in the Uncreated Light of Tabor, which will I think be as great an upgrade from our perspective a the Eucharist was over the Jewish temple sacrifices.

I grealty pity those misguided dispensationalists who believe the rebuilding of the Temple and the restoration of animal sacrifices is required for the return of Christ and the belief that he would preside over a revived sacrificial cult personally. Such people don’t realixe how unpleasant Temple worship was (although infinitely better than the cults of the gods of the gentiles) and how it contained a foreshadow of the Eucharist in the form of the shewbread and libations.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

sorry all, I've been away for the last few days so if I missed anything important please let me know.

I was away because a windows 11 update from 24H2 to 25H2 disturbed my AMD based MiniPC and I decided that I'd migrate to Linux (Mint distribution). I have most matters sorted out now and have resumed reading CF posts.

 

[Bob Crowley]

I've been using Redhat Fedora Linux for a few years. I'm no expert, but I use it for general everyday stuff in a private context.

It's very stable, and a lot less cluttered than the Windows Desktop.

If Microsoft and other applications were always compatible, I'd use it all the time. But sometimes eg. my Vinnies stuff, I have to use Windows.

 

[The Liturgist]

sorry all, I've been away for the last few days so if I missed anything important please let me know.

I was away because a windows 11 update from 24H2 to 25H2 disturbed my AMD based MiniPC and I decided that I'd migrate to Linux (Mint distribution). I have most matters sorted out now and have resumed reading CF posts.

Mint is a good choice. They largely developed the Cinammon GUI and also were the first popular distro with easy access to MATE.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Mint is a good choice. They largely developed the Cinammon GUI and also were the first popular distro with easy access to MATE.

I am using XFCE, it is light-weight and fast. It has very few disadvantages.

 

[CoreyD]

do you believe that God cares about how you worship him? should you kneel when you pray, should you be standing when you pray? Should you receive Holy Communion Every time you gather should you be baptised once or more than once? is it OK to dance while you're in church? is it OK to speak in tongues even if you had no idea what those tongues might mean and you don't know what you're saying?

cheque out your answers to see if they fit with what the Bible has to say. The Old Testament has a few things to say about worship so does The New testament.

Or do you not really care very much about what the Bible has to say on worship and you just go along with whatever your denomination says is good?

Jesus said he does. John 4:23, 24
I go with what Jesus said.