Liturgy Matters

A cautionary tale for pastors who want to monkey with the liturgy, especially by replacing or removing the creeds, severing your connection to the ancient Church by commission or omission, and not practicing and teaching the sign of the cross:

A new survey reveals that a third of American Evangelicals believe that Jesus was “a good teacher, but He was not God.”

And the popular Evangelical non-traditional type of worship is what many of our bureaucrats and experts think we need to adopt to be more “missional.” Others claim that we need to burn our liturgical bridges in the interest of “diversity.”

However, this survey means that a third of such Evangelicals have actually become Arians.

It’s important to confess the Nicene Creed and you do so publicly in worship. Refutation of this particular heresy is also the purpose of the large sign of the cross traced from head to chest and shoulder to shoulder. On the one hand, such practices are in and of themselves adiaphora. But on the other hand, we are increasingly living in a time of confession, in which such things cease to be adiaphora, as we confess in FC SD 10:10.

This is also another example of “Chesterton’s Fence” and the old adage: “Lex orandi, lex credendi.”