Our Order of Worship (20)

In the last few articles we have been discussing those parts of the worship service in which the minister functions both as the ambassador of God, speaking in God's name to the congregation, and as the mouthpiece of the people, speaking to God in the people's name. Specifically, to the former belong the salutation, the benedictions, the reading of the law, the preaching. To the latter belong the votum -- "Our help is in the name of Jehovah. . . ," the reading of the Apostolic Confession (when...