Glenn Packiam is the lead pastor of new life DOWNTOWN, an extension of New Life Church (Colorado Springs, CO). He recently shared his list of five marks of good liturgy:
- A Good Liturgy Invites People to Participate.
- A Good Liturgy Reinforces the Right Desires.
- A Good Liturgy Challenges Our Desire for Novelty.
- A Good Liturgy Confronts Our Obsession with Originality.
- A Good Liturgy Breaks Our Addiction to Activity.
So What?
I have been involved in crafting or helping create what I believe to be good liturgy for many years. You have likely participated in hundreds if not thousands of services of worship.
- How would you define “good liturgy”?
- What items would you add to and/or subtract from Packiam’s marks of good liturgy?
- Do you believe your congregation’s leaders devote the appropriate amount of resources to constructing good liturgy?