People often confuse two Biblical concepts:  confession of sin and repentance from sin. Confession means to say the same thing about my behavior, thoughts, emotions, motives, goals, and desires that God says about them. It means to tell God that I’ve sinned and here’s how I did it. Some people are great confessors. They freely […]

In the medieval Church, there was a sharp distinction between the worshiping clergy and the spectators found in the laity. The “action~ was up front, behind what was called the rood screen, and the people of God assembled to watch—well, mostly to listen. They were permitted to be in the presence of something big—they were […]

Our practice of weekly communion comes out of our understanding of covenant renewal worship. The natural procession moves from confession to consecration, and from consecration to communion. We want this progression to occur every time we worship God. The heart of biblical worship is organized around Word and sacrament. But we do not understand this […]

While the structure of a typical CREC worship service has a lot in common with what visitors might call a “traditional worship service”–enough so as to simply be a variation on such services—there are certain elements about it that stand out, and which probably, will draw some questions. The first is the common practice of […]