Our marriage vows were surrounded by it. Liturgy was there on Wednesday mornings in school chapel and on Wednesday evenings as the devotion before choir. And it was there in a way we will never forget at grandfather's funeral. The liturgy is present throughout our lives as a teacher of the faith. The church learns promises and truths by remembering and rehearsing them again and again, but mainly she learns how to receive divine gifts.
Worship is pure reception.
Frequently, his classes would rebel. Somehow this description of worship did not fit the common understanding of something we do. Dr. Hamann would then gently and patiently explain the beauty of a Lutheran theology of worship. Dr. Hamann repeated. In the gift of baptism.