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Weekly Devotional
August 17, 2009
God’s Peace be with you all.
1 Corinthians
8:1-3 we know that "all of us
possess knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds
up. 2 Anyone who claims to know
something does not yet have the necessary knowledge;
3 but anyone who loves God is known by
him.
Sirach 29:21
21 The
necessities of life are water, bread, and clothing, and
also a house to assure privacy.
Exodus 27:8-21
8 You shall
make it hollow, with boards. They shall be made just as
you were shown on the mountain. 9 You
shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south
side the court shall have hangings of fine twisted linen
one hundred cubits long for that side; 10
its twenty pillars and their twenty bases shall be of
bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their bands
shall be of silver. 11 Likewise for
its length on the north side there shall be hangings one
hundred cubits long, their pillars twenty and their
bases twenty,
 of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars
and their bands shall be of silver. 12
For the width of the court on the west side there shall
be fifty cubits of hangings, with ten pillars and ten
bases. 13 The width of the court on
the front to the east shall be fifty cubits. 14
There shall be fifteen cubits of hangings on the one
side, with three pillars and three bases. 15
There shall be fifteen cubits of hangings on the other
side, with three pillars and three bases. 16
For the gate of the court there shall be a screen
twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns,
and of fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework;
it shall have four pillars and with them four bases.
17 All the pillars around the court shall
be banded with silver; their hooks shall be of silver,
and their bases of bronze. 18 The
length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, the
width fifty, and the height five cubits, with hangings
of fine twisted linen and bases of bronze. 19
All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use,
and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, shall be
of bronze. 20 You shall further
command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of beaten
olives for the light, so that a lamp may be set up to
burn regularly. 21 In the tent of
meeting, outside the curtain that is before the
covenant, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening
to morning before the LORD. It shall be a perpetual
ordinance to be observed throughout their generations by
the Israelites.
Every week there are lots of things we use in
worship that we call “adiaphora.(ahh-D-offer-ahh)” This
term means essentially “All the things we do that are not
necessary.” For example, Carol and I wearing robes every
week, or lighting the candles on the altar, or dressing up
for church. Doing those things don’t change the actual
worship except to how we perceive the worship. Without
them, we would still have worship.
Most of these items also have names that go back
many hundreds of years and are usually Latin. Some are
English though. To give you an idea of all the things that
we use in worship that help to make up adiaphora, below is a
little quiz for you. See what you can answer on your own,
there will be a test next Sunday :D
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Quiz: Terms for
common items used in Lutheran worship.
taken
from "The Lutheran Handbook II"
Match the terms on the left with the definitions
on the right. You may not believe it when you
see the terms, but you have seen all of these
items almost every Sunday!
1. ambo a. lay minister who
reads the first and second readings
from
Scripture
2. chancel b. long handled
device for lighting and extinguishing
candles
3. chasuble c. linen covered
square placed over the rim of the
chalice
4. cincture d. cross on a tall
staff used to lead processions
5. credence e. table at the
chancel wall used to hold offering plates
6. ewer f. another name
for a pulpit
7. lector g. plate used to
hold bread during Hoy Communion
liturgy
8. missal j. area (usually
elevated) where the altar and pulpit are
located
9. pall i. kneeling
bench or prayer bench
10. paten h. the principal
vestment for Holy Communion liturgy
worn by the
presiding minister
11. priedieu k. shelf on the east
wall on which flowers are placed
12. processional cross l. altar service book
13. retable m. rope belt worn
with the alb/robe
14. taper n. pitcher used for
carrying water to the baptismal font
See next week's
devotional for answers! |
In
our prayers this week:
Doris, Mary Netta, Ann,
Joseph, Irene, Jane, Michael, and St. John’s Lutheran
Church.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Judson
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