{"id":102812,"date":"2021-06-06T07:54:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T11:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102812"},"modified":"2021-06-06T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T12:03:25","slug":"food-for-thought-on-worship-from-a-brand-new-book-on-anglicanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102812","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought on Worship from a brand new book on Anglicanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Worshiping the God who is triune makes a substantial difference to what true worship actually is. The doctrine of the Trinity means that Christian worship is a sharing in the Son\u2019s union with his Father, through the Holy Spirit. Our union with Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit is the basis for this sharing of God\u2019s people together in the divine life of God. We stand to worship God by means of the mediatory ministry of Jesus before the Father, to which we are drawn by the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. As our great high priest, he sanctifies us by his blood, which he himself offered. This understanding of our relationship to the triune God was in part responsible for the Reformation\u2019s rejection of the medieval concept of priesthood\u2014since Christ is our supreme and exclusive mediator before God. As Torrance puts it, \u201cThe doctrine of the Trinity is the grammar of this participatory understanding of worship and prayer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Michael P. Jensen, <strong>Reformation Anglican Worship:Experiencing Grace, Expressing Gratitude <\/strong> (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2021), p. 42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worshiping the God who is triune makes a substantial difference to what true worship actually is. The doctrine of the Trinity means that Christian worship is a sharing in the Son\u2019s union with his Father, through the Holy Spirit. Our<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102812\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,92,186,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-books","category-church-history","category-liturgy-music-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102815,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102812\/revisions\/102815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}