From: Robert Johnson <>

Subject: Re: Worship styles – again…

Date: Mon, 5 May 1997)

Rowland in article ()
you wrote:

: Then Jesus told him or her, ‘I’m not going to accuse you either.


: You may go now, but don’t sin anymore by thinking your style
of

: worship matters to me. It’s your deepest inner motives I’m

: interested in – it’s your heart attitude I notice. O.K.?’

I like some styles better than others, but that’s
not the issue. What sometimes bothers me is that whole pieces
of what I regard as essential pieces of a service go missing sometimes
when it gets non-traditional to an extreme. Like omitting any
reference to the scripture verses known to me as the "words
of institution" in a communion service. I think that’s a
significant omission in that it’s a public affirmation of what
it is that is going on at that moment.

—

Bob Johnson