Wednesday, June 21, 2006
GC ‘06 Update 5
Update from Grants Colloquium:
I just came from a lively session entitled “How Doctrine Nourishes Worship.” You might not expect to read the words “lively” and “doctrine” in the same sentence, but it was. Joyce Ann Zimmerman and Rev. Doug Brouwer of our Grants Advisory Board outlined a method for reflecting on the words of scripture in a way that sheds insight on our worship practices.
We’ll be posting an outline and audio of their presentation under Theology, but for now, here are two texts whose insight about the theology and meaning of worship these speakers said is underappreciated:
Psalm 100
1Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.
2 Worship the Lord with gladness;
come into his presence with singing.3Know that the Lord is God.
It is he that made us, and we are his;*
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.4Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him, bless his name.5For the Lord is good;
his steadfast love endures for ever,
and his faithfulness to all generations. (NRSV)
Isaiah 6
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. 2Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 3And one called to another and said:
‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory.’
4The pivots* on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. 5And I said: ‘Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!’6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7The seraph* touched my mouth with it and said: ‘Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.’ 8Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me!’ 9And he said, ‘Go and say to this people ... (NRSV)
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