{"id":2231,"date":"2004-12-09T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2004\/12\/o-god.html"},"modified":"2004-12-09T02:14:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T02:14:00","slug":"o-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2004\/12\/o-god.html","title":{"rendered":"O God …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Episcopal Church, with the help of St Gregory\u2019s, San Francisco, now offers an online Liturgical Resource<\/a>. Here\u2019s a bit of commentary from Midwest Conservative Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So what sorts of resources can be found at The Worship Well? If you have to ask, you really should bail out now and go read something else. But if you have the stomach for it, here are two. The Rev. Bonnie Perry of All Saints Episcopal Church in Chicago delivered a sermon last March called \u201cIt\u2019s a River, Not a Pie\u201d that starts out like this: <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Christianity. Not the Christianity that some would have us believe. It\u2019s not the narrow, moralistic, judgmental, provincial ideology that some purport it to be. It\u2019s not the constitutional amending, gay marriage-banning, if-you-love-another-adult-that-somehow-wrecks-who-I-love theology that some claim it to be.<\/em><\/p>\n

The scriptural reality is that Christianity is first and foremost, not about keeping people out, it\u2019s not about sending people away, it\u2019s not about saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t play.\u201d Christianity in its finest form is an open door and a warm hearth. It is a gracious host meeting us at the door and saying, \u201cI\u2019ve waited so long to see you. I am so happy you\u2019re here. You know, I was hoping you\u2019d stop by.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And ends like this:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My second thought: It\u2019s a river, not a pie! God\u2019s love for us is not a 9-inch, deep-dish strawberry, rhubarb pie \u2013 as delectable as that might be. God\u2019s love for us is a raging, roaring, rain-forest fed, class five river of grace. It is an ever-flowing stream of abundant love. God\u2019s love for us is not limited. God\u2019s love is not finite. It is not a pie that is whacked up and given out parsimoniously to the deserving. God\u2019s love, God\u2019s welcome, God\u2019s grace is distributed recklessly washing over all in its path. God\u2019s love is a river-not a pie.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This one\u2019s not quite as good as her famous sermon \u201cIt\u2019s a Strawberry Daiquiri, Not a Bridge Abutment\u201d but that one\u2019s a homiletical masterpiece, pretty much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other example comes from St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church of, mirablie dictu, San Francisco. St. Greg\u2019s, who has an icon mural of these people <\/a>dancing on its walls, put together some principles of worship in June of 1999. They include:<\/p>\n

God invites us to be God\u2019s Friends.<\/em><\/p>\n

We take part in a spirit of Holy play.<\/p>\n

We make physical connection, touching one another as we greet the Gospel book, dance to the Table, exchange the Peace, and dance our final Carol.<\/p>\n

We only put congregational music in people\u2019s hands, music they will need to sing, so our eyes are up, not reading along. As we pray the Eucharistic prayer together, we listen or drone a support pitch (again, not reading along).<\/p>\n

We move together physically \u2013 the whole congregation moves in processions and congregational dance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Episcopal Church, with the help of St Gregory\u2019s, San Francisco, now offers an online Liturgical Resource. Here\u2019s a bit of commentary from Midwest Conservative Journal: So what sorts of resources can be found at The Worship Well? If you have to ask, you really should bail out now and go read something else. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nO God ...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Episcopal Church, with the help of St Gregory's, San Francisco, now offers an online Liturgical Resource. 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