Sacred Roots Workshop

144 Sacred Roots Workshop: Retr ieving the Great Tradi t ion in the Contemporary Church

b. Empty and unbiblical ritual can be produced just as easily with praise songs as with old hymns.

c. Failure to view Scripture as history can produce an ego-centric orientation of the use of Scripture with a failure to see the value of the ancient Scripture, faith, Creed, and spirituality.

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Nothing is new that matters and nothing that matters can be modernized. One way to evaluate anything in the world around us is to check for possible modernization. If it can be modernized you may safely put it far down in the scale of human values. Only the unchanged and the unchanging should be accounted worthy of lasting consideration by beings made in the image of God.

~ A. W. Tozer. Born after Midnight . Harrisburg, Penn: Christian Publications, Inc. 1959. pp. 88-92.

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4. “The Church year makes sure that everything is remembered and celebrated, not just the fun things or the easy things. Sure, we have several weeks of Easter and 12 days of Christmas, but we also have 4 Sundays of Advent, 40 days of Lent and a week of Holy Week. How many churches not on the Church year can honestly say they have focused on the life of Christ to such an extraordinary degree?” (Jonathan Bennett, The Church Year: Experience the Bible in a Year . Churchyear.net).

B. It is Christo-centric: the Church Year focuses on the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth.

1. “Thus, in Christianity, all time has a center. Paul developed this notion in his epistle to the Colossians declaring that Christ is the creator of all things (1.16), the one in whom all things hold together (1.17), and the