"Every place has its own culture. Adam had a duty to preserve the culture of Eden. And what was he preserving? He was preserving the sacred. What were the priests preserving even in desert places? The sacred. What were Paul and the Apostles seeking to preserve? The sacred.
We are also responsible for preserving the sacred as a royal priesthood. What does it mean to do this in our day? We will need to be more diligent in providing some level of cultural and theological coherence in the communities with which we engage. This may necessitate leaving some communities to invest more fervently in communities that share our values and religious assumptions.
When particular communities do not bring life and when they do not preserve the sacred, we need to consider whether that investment is worth our time and whether it is building life among our family members.
We are the sum of our community investments. Every place has its own culture, and we must preserve the sacred in our Church as we treasure the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church as God’s most favored culture.
If we are committed to preserving this culture, we must maintain this act called worship because it consists of the most sacred and cultural practices in heaven.
We can sit around talking about preserving holiness codes, we can talk about the significance of confession and praise, we can philosophize about these things on the porch, we can opine about it in fancy academic halls, we can blog about it, we can form committees to research sacred thoughts throughout church history, but if we don’t do culture and if we don’t live and exercise our liturgical bones, then our culture will become dull. And there is one place where the unholy loves to make home—dull, tedious, cold-shaped worship. The place where participation is optional, singing is melancholic, and worship is just some 70-minute dynamic we engage in but can’t wait to leave. Such places—Europe and North America have taught us in the last 100 years—are ripe for losing the sacred.
If we are to preserve our culture of the sacred, we must enter into this time of worship wholeheartedly as if life itself depended on it; as if our culture could lose its stamina; as if our piety would be threatened by our lack of gusto.
Every place has its own culture. And the church is the driver of all cultures. If we lose our rhythms here, we will lose our rhythms everywhere.
Come, let us worship! God calls us to preserve the sacred!"
~ Uriesuo Brito
We are also responsible for preserving the sacred as a royal priesthood. What does it mean to do this in our day? We will need to be more diligent in providing some level of cultural and theological coherence in the communities with which we engage. This may necessitate leaving some communities to invest more fervently in communities that share our values and religious assumptions.
When particular communities do not bring life and when they do not preserve the sacred, we need to consider whether that investment is worth our time and whether it is building life among our family members.
We are the sum of our community investments. Every place has its own culture, and we must preserve the sacred in our Church as we treasure the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church as God’s most favored culture.
If we are committed to preserving this culture, we must maintain this act called worship because it consists of the most sacred and cultural practices in heaven.
We can sit around talking about preserving holiness codes, we can talk about the significance of confession and praise, we can philosophize about these things on the porch, we can opine about it in fancy academic halls, we can blog about it, we can form committees to research sacred thoughts throughout church history, but if we don’t do culture and if we don’t live and exercise our liturgical bones, then our culture will become dull. And there is one place where the unholy loves to make home—dull, tedious, cold-shaped worship. The place where participation is optional, singing is melancholic, and worship is just some 70-minute dynamic we engage in but can’t wait to leave. Such places—Europe and North America have taught us in the last 100 years—are ripe for losing the sacred.
If we are to preserve our culture of the sacred, we must enter into this time of worship wholeheartedly as if life itself depended on it; as if our culture could lose its stamina; as if our piety would be threatened by our lack of gusto.
Every place has its own culture. And the church is the driver of all cultures. If we lose our rhythms here, we will lose our rhythms everywhere.
Come, let us worship! God calls us to preserve the sacred!"
~ Uriesuo Brito
"Every place has its own culture. Adam had a duty to preserve the culture of Eden. And what was he preserving? He was preserving the sacred. What were the priests preserving even in desert places? The sacred. What were Paul and the Apostles seeking to preserve? The sacred.
We are also responsible for preserving the sacred as a royal priesthood. What does it mean to do this in our day? We will need to be more diligent in providing some level of cultural and theological coherence in the communities with which we engage. This may necessitate leaving some communities to invest more fervently in communities that share our values and religious assumptions.
When particular communities do not bring life and when they do not preserve the sacred, we need to consider whether that investment is worth our time and whether it is building life among our family members.
We are the sum of our community investments. Every place has its own culture, and we must preserve the sacred in our Church as we treasure the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church as God’s most favored culture.
If we are committed to preserving this culture, we must maintain this act called worship because it consists of the most sacred and cultural practices in heaven.
We can sit around talking about preserving holiness codes, we can talk about the significance of confession and praise, we can philosophize about these things on the porch, we can opine about it in fancy academic halls, we can blog about it, we can form committees to research sacred thoughts throughout church history, but if we don’t do culture and if we don’t live and exercise our liturgical bones, then our culture will become dull. And there is one place where the unholy loves to make home—dull, tedious, cold-shaped worship. The place where participation is optional, singing is melancholic, and worship is just some 70-minute dynamic we engage in but can’t wait to leave. Such places—Europe and North America have taught us in the last 100 years—are ripe for losing the sacred.
If we are to preserve our culture of the sacred, we must enter into this time of worship wholeheartedly as if life itself depended on it; as if our culture could lose its stamina; as if our piety would be threatened by our lack of gusto.
Every place has its own culture. And the church is the driver of all cultures. If we lose our rhythms here, we will lose our rhythms everywhere.
Come, let us worship! God calls us to preserve the sacred!"
~ Uriesuo Brito
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