Great post Trevor! Thank you for sharing! Looks like our own pattern at Ada CRC follows this fairly closely. As a newcomer to the denomination over the last 4 years, I'm encouraged that as a whole, we share much unity in our worship with our Reformation brothers and sisters in a vareity of churches. While each denomination may have it's own distinctives, this "shape" of worship, following a conversational pattern and moving through a "gospel" focused covenant meeting with God is something that is fairly well adopted among the various Reformation heritage churches.
Those among us who emphasize our unity (and a growing need for unity) ought to take comfort and delight in seeing that despite many differences on a host of issues, worship is a growing point of interpretative unity.
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Great post Trevor! Thank you for sharing! Looks like our own pattern at Ada CRC follows this fairly closely. As a newcomer to the denomination over the last 4 years, I'm encouraged that as a whole, we share much unity in our worship with our Reformation brothers and sisters in a vareity of churches. While each denomination may have it's own distinctives, this "shape" of worship, following a conversational pattern and moving through a "gospel" focused covenant meeting with God is something that is fairly well adopted among the various Reformation heritage churches.
Those among us who emphasize our unity (and a growing need for unity) ought to take comfort and delight in seeing that despite many differences on a host of issues, worship is a growing point of interpretative unity.