Individuals can claim a vocation to evangelism or social action but the body of Christ is alive and well only when both are happening and when those who carry them out know that they cannot do without each other's work. The other dimension of worship I want to lift up is the need all of us have for unequivocal gestures of blessing, for moments when we bask in the goodness of God, are assured of the sufficiency of Christ, and know the embrace of the Spirit. Mennonite worship should offer us such ecstasy, such self-forgetfulness in the presence of divine and human love. The Lord's Supper is the most tangible communal form of God's grace, if we let it be that. But there are others.
Music gives words and emotions flight.
Preaching, as a word from God breaking into our reality, is much undervalued in our circles, on both sides of the divide. Passionate, Biblical, trinitarian, preaching can offer us this encounter. I have suggested a few beginning points. I hope that I have offered a smattering of historical and liturgical thoughts that can lead us to ways of worship that will mark our hearts and wills and enlarge our love for God's world. Even its forays into forms from other cultures seem not to be ones that people from those cultures living in Canada or the States are at home with.