Liturgy for the Church

For my creative project, I made my first attempt at writing a liturgical call and response. After reading what N.T. Wright said about exploring our different ways to worship, I realized that I haven't given enough credit to the use of liturgical readings. But after going through the material for this course and trying to write a liturgy myself, I agree with Wright that a liturgical call and response is an excellent way to corporately worship God.

This is a rough draft. I hope to revise this and keep it in the case that it may one day actually be used or applied. This call and response is based off of Paul's prayer for the Ephesians, Chapter 3:15-21. This is a passage that a past church I attended repeated often as a prayer, and I remember really liking it when we did that. So taking from that idea of the body of Christ reciting Scripture together, I broke up the passage and added responses, which really stretched me in terms of creativity. I modified the language a bit, but the leader is basically reciting the Scripture passage. The responses to each line by the reader incorporate a little more detail on some of the themes of this course.

I really wanted to capture a sort of calling out to God to be more involved and active in our everyday lives through the responses. To really open up our minds and spirits to what God would do with them. Hope you enjoy, and of course, feedback is welcome.