{"id":320,"date":"2013-02-16T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T18:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/?page_id=320"},"modified":"2019-04-11T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T23:58:07","slug":"worship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol the Lord, all peoples! For great is God&#8217;s steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord! (Psalm 117:1-2)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lutheran worship can take many forms, but at its core is the emphasis on God&#8217;s primacy: we respond to God&#8217;s love, we do not earn it through our words or deeds.&nbsp; Sunday worship at Bethel varies with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liturgical_year\">church seasons<\/a>: commonly we will use the same basic form for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advent\">Advent<\/a>, for example, with a change coming at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas\">Christmas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epiphany_%28holiday%29\">Epiphany<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lent\">Lent<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Easter\">Easter<\/a>, etc.&nbsp; In this way our Sunday gatherings become an extension of the greater church and its timeless rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday readings generally follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workingpreacher.org\/preaching.aspx?lectionary=nl\">Narrative Lectionary<\/a>, a 4-year rotation of readings intended to take the worshiper through the stories of faith from Creation to the Early Church.&nbsp; Additional information about the Narrative Lectionary and the process that went into its creation can be found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingpreacher.org\/narrative_faqs.aspx\">workingpreacher.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is always room for new forms of worship at Bethel: from intensive healing prayer to labyrinths, from contemporary praise bands to pipe organ festivals&#8211;all of these have played a role in Bethel&#8217;s worship life over the years.&nbsp; If something speaks to your heart, but you haven&#8217;t experienced it here, speak up and see what happens: the Spirit of God can move through any of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praise the Lord, all nations! Extol the Lord, all peoples! For great is God&#8217;s steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord! (Psalm 117:1-2) Lutheran worship can take many forms, but at its core is the emphasis on God&#8217;s primacy: we respond to God&#8217;s love, we do not &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/worship\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2396,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"page","2":"publish","3":"author-blc_admin","4":"post-320","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}