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The
8.15 am Service will be a Book of Common Prayer
service. There is the occasional hymn at the end of the service,
but the rest of the service offers a quiet contemplative experience.
While keeping the service to a certain length of time is certainly
not an objective, nonetheless the service itself does not generally
last beyond 45 minutes.
The
10.00 am Service (a new time) will be mostly a service
in the modern language of the BAS. At other times, while the congregational
responses will be in modern English, the Prayer of Consecration
may be in the language of the BCP. There will be a combination of
media- over-head screen and specially prepared service booklet.
The music will be mixed and the accompaniment will match the particular
repertoire.
It is evident
to anyone coming to St. George’s that the various worship
options have been an attempt to respond to the different spiritualities
and no one group can honestly claim that it has the largest following
here. The spirit of accommodation (not just tolerance - which is
condescending) must be modeled within the Body of Christ first.
The world is crying for it and many of you are familiar with many
non-church people who are committed to the oneness of creation,
but lament the fact that too often, a step in some church doors
reveals a cold fractious spirit that hides the beauty in the face
of Christ. Here at St. George’s our vision statement guides
us to model that accommodation within the Body of Christ that is
essential to our mission when we leave this worship space. Welcome
then in the name of Christ! We hope you will go away with something,
but we also know that it cannot come together in just one visit.
We remember that we were guided to pray by Jesus “give us
each day our daily bread”. So, come again!
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