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To: Mr. Lucky

Odd that the nondenominational churches are so indifferent to liturgy. The New Testament is very unspecific about the order of service, but the outline is there: Scripture, song, prayer AND the breaking of the bread. But the Lord's Supper , so important to the early Christians, as we see in Justin Martyr, is so downplayed. Such as order as they have follows Geneva. Ironically, Calvin himself would have preferred something more like what Cranmer created. Except he didn't want to impose. His fierceness did not extend to trying to dominate people. As I read Calvin, he would have accepted much of the panapoly of the Church in order to change the theology, in this being like Luther indifferent to externals. In short, he was not a Puritan.


209 posted on 02/20/2007 11:39:37 AM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS
There is an interesting thread called Protestant Liturgics which addresses some of your comments regarding liturgy in nondenominational churches.
212 posted on 02/21/2007 12:09:39 PM PST by Titanites
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