To: Das Outsider
The rationale for dropping the Athanasian Creed was something along the lines of “why fill two pages with a Creed that most congregations seldom if ever use?”. Most congregations would only use it liturgically on Trinity Sunday. Part of the rationalization was that the Creed would be available for download and on various electronic media.
There are some worship planning gurus who feel that anything printed is too 20th century and that there is no need for a book in the pews...too restricting, I suppose.
Bad praxis, bad theology.
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05/26/2008 6:47:08 PM PDT by
lightman
(Waiting for Godot and searching for Avignon)
To: lightman
Bad praxis, bad theology.
Why use printed hymnals at all? Why not do like so many megachurches and install a Jumbotron? Follow the bouncing ball to Jesus, folks!
Joking aside, I do agree with your sentiments. Churches of varied denominations, while they may mean well, have become more like the world in their quest to remain "relevant," as they understand the term.
To: lightman
I could argue both sides in a debate on this subject. I like hymnals, I like singing with four parts, but I see people singing with their face buried in a book that they have been singing all their life, 50yrs and more. If we were some place where there were no books they could sing it just fine. But if the hymnal is there that's where their face is.
We started using a projector for songs at my church, what I like about it is that it gets peoples faces up where you can see them when they sing. It makes more like were all singing together.
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