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| | Paul Bosch's Worship Workbench - "The God Business": Multiple Services in an Age of Consumerism (Lutheran liturgy, ... |
 | | To "offer", within a single parish, distinct "worship opportunities", in a variety of time periods and in a variety of styles, is to deny the catholicity of the church; or, at the very least, to obscure its perception among our people. |
 | | Multiple Services encourage a perception in our communities that worship consists of laypeople coming to their ordained clergy to be "filled", as to a gas station, a misperception at least as old as the Middle Ages, and against which Luther railed. |
 | | In any case, clergy with multiple Services and multiple staff do well to respect the reality that each assembly of believers is a separate sociological entity: they themselves (the clergy) have become, in effect, old-time nineteenth-century circuit riders. |
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