Why You Can’t Avoid Liturgy - Winfield Bevins (Ep 25.2)

You have a tradition that you practice every day. You brush your teeth. You may not always like doing it, but the results are great. Cleaning our teeth is a tradition that’s been around for thousands of years. Many cultures practiced it quite differently and with various tools for cleaning the teeth, but it has been around for a long time. Ancient Egyptians are said to have made crude toothbrushes from frayed twigs. Thankfully, you don’t brush your teeth with a stick today. You have the benefit of thousands of years of learning to now brush your teeth as efficiently as it’s ever been done in human history. We in North America also tend to look at our growth as disciples of Christ very individualistically, thinking we have to figure out how to grow and that our growth is just so we can become more like Christ. But this misses the connection we have to the body of Christ both with us today and that came before us for the last 2000 years. You don’t have to figure out how to grow from square one, just like you don’t have to learn the best way to clean your teeth all over again. Millions of believers have gone before you, figuring out how to grow. And the practices that have worked stuck around in the form of liturgies. Your growth today can find life and structure in those practices. That’s not to say you have to practice everything exactly as it’s been done for centuries on end. It simply means you have the benefit of knowing what works and what doesn’t because someone has already figured it out. You now have the privilege of growing in richer soil than Christians 500 years ago. And your daily growth today will provide the soil for disciples in the next generation. In this chapter, Winfield unpacks some of the ways liturgies can bring life to our growth as well as some of the bad liturgies that we should probably avoid.

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