It’s Sunday. We go to be with the Church in the building the Church meets in.
Bishop Colin Dunlop, Anglican Public Worship, 1953:
“For the fact is that whenever worship is thought of as essentially a means to some human end, however lofty, its pursuit will surely be disappointing. Such an estimate is bound up with an ultimate belief that God exists for man and heaven for earth, and that nothing is of value unless it can be shown to contribute a more or less immediate benefit to man assessable in terms of this world. Yet worship is only possible because man is not a creature of this world and because he is a child of God and destined to be an inheritor of the kingdom of Heaven. Worship is the characteristic activity of Heaven and of all those whom God has called to their places there.”
This was required reading for my Liturgics class. It came to mind as I pondered the day ahead.
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