![]() You will perform the liturgy, the duties of which I entrust to your priesthood (Numbers 18:7 NJB) You and your sons will undertake the priestly duties in all that concerns the altar and all that lies behind the curtain. ![]() See my post regarding Religion and Relationship. But when you understand the intent and real meaning of the words, this shouldn’t be the case. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy is a communal response to and participation in, the sacred through activity reflecting praise, thanksgiving, supplication or repentance.” Sometimes people think of liturgy in a negative sense, much in the same way we seem to demonize the word religion. That’s maybe a bit much language detail, but you can look each of those up if you want.Īccording to Wikipedia, “Liturgy is the customary public worship performed by a religious group, according to its beliefs, customs and traditions. Leitourgia is used in the Septuagint to translate the Hebrew nouns מלאכה melakhah (#H4399) and עבודה avodah (#H5656), and leitourgeo is used to translate the verbs עבד avad (#H5647) and שׁרת sharat (#H8334). Our English word liturgy comes from the Greek noun λειτουργία leitourgia (Strong’s Greek word #G3009) and appears in various forms along with the Greek verb λειτουργέω leitourgeo (#G3008) about nine times in the New Testament. It doesn’t require someone with a knowledge of Hebrew, but instead uses some simple words and phrases that will be more meaningful as you worship. So in this post, I want to offer you an easy Sabbath liturgy suitable for use in a small home fellowship or similar Bible study. You may have a shofar, but might not want to blow it very loudly in your living room. You likely won’t have a Torah scroll in an Ark. When we gather together on the Sabbath with our families or in our home fellowship groups, we usually don’t have a Hebrew-speaking cantor or the other benefits of a larger congregation reciting a Sabbath liturgy.
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