The Lord's Service

Sentence Summary:

The Lord’s Service (Sunday worship) is a Trinitarian work of grace which the Church responds to with praise in an act of covenant renewal, as built upon Old Testament sacrificial practices, following a five-step process: Call to worship, confession and absolution, consecration by the Word, Communion, and benediction.

Summary:

Meyers determines the continuity between the methods of covenant renewal within the different covenants as being substantial grounds to believe in its concept within New Testament Christian worship. He therefore briefly analyses the ways which God created His covenants throughout the Old Testament, conceptualising the creation of the covenants as having five steps: (1) God sovereignly calls for the creation of a new covenant; (2) God causes a separation to form a new creation, establishing a hierarchical order, requiring the atonement of sin; (3) God establishes new mandates and stipulations to be followed and obeyed; (4) God establishes signs and seals of the new covenant, most frequently by a communal meal; and (5) God provides for the perpetuation of the covenant.

This process is followed in each of the Creation, Noahic, Abrahamic, and Mosaic Covenants, and it therefore ought to be followed within the New Covenant. The Mosaic Covenant followed this process in steps (2)-(4) by the Sin, Ascension, and Peace Offerings, which each represented atonement of sin, the movement from death to fellowship, and community respectively. These…