Now that I have your attention, please allow me to explain. I finished a paper on a Trinitarian theology of worship. While just being done may be reason to dance, but if you know me - it takes a bit more than just a finished paper to make me dance. Allow me to back up a bit.
One of the topics within my paper was dealing with the relationship between the corporate expression of worship and the person piety of the believer. Both can be identified as worship, but which one is more important? I desperately wanted to conclude that the corporate expression, the typical Sunday morning liturgy, was the starting point for a full life of worship. I even had a few authors who made the argument fairly forcefully. I think I really wanted to prove that so that I could blame my inconsistency in spiritual disciplines on the Sunday morning services. Yet ultimately that was not to be the case.
You see, like I mention at the beginning - it was a paper on a Trinitarian theology of worship. I couldn't get past the idea that the relationship between the corporate and personal aspects of worship could best be likened to the dance that happens between the persons of the Trinity. The greeks liked to call it that relationship "perichoresis", a "circle dance." The more I wrestled with the topic the more it struck me that there needs to be a dance between my personal piety and the expression of worship that happens when the Church gathers. So I'm learning what that dance looks like. I'm figuring out that both need to play in harmony for a life of worship.
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