Worship (J): From Middles Ages to Modern Times

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/worshipj/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p>3rd century – church buildings (converted houses)</p><ul><li>4th century<ul><li>Influx of O.T. culture (priesthood, church/state, and more)</li><li>Influx of paganism (holidays, images...)</li><li>Basilicas</li><li>Role of Imperial support</li></ul></li><li>5th century<ul><li>Relics</li><li>Cult of saints</li><li>Mary</li><li>The stern Christ</li></ul></li><li>High Middle Ages<ul><li>Serious ecclesiastical abuses (crusades, Inquisition, etc)</li><li>Congregations pay little attention during services</li><li>Yet it was also an age of saints!</li></ul></li><li>Reformation – Center moves from Eucharist to sermon</li><li>Restoration Movement – even less ceremony</li><li>Modern times<ul><li>Seeker-friendly services</li><li>"Satisfying“ worship – yet satisfying us or God?</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Modern worship scenarios</strong></p><ul><li>House churches</li><li>Park services (trees)</li><li>Renting spaces</li><li>Renting synagogues</li><li>Renting churches</li><li>Churches with buildings</li><li>Underground churches</li></ul><p><strong>Oh, Worship the King!</strong></p><p>.</p><p>Oh, worship the King, all glorious above.</p><p>And gratefully sing his power and his love;<br />Our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days,<br />Pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise.</p><p>.</p><p>Oh, tell of his might; oh, sing of his grace,<br />Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space;<br />His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,<br />And dark is his path on the wings of the storm.</p><p>.</p><p>The earth with its store of wonders untold,<br />Almighty, Thy power has founded of old,<br />Established it fast by a changeless decree,<br />And round it has cast, like a mantle, the sea.</p><p>.<br />Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite?<br />It breathes in the air, it shines in the light,<br />It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain<br />An