Liturgy -- The Dialog of Corporate Worship

It stands to reason that if you have the Jones's into your house, that you converse with them. So it is for Christ. They talked when Christ appeared on the first day of the week to the disciples before his ascension.

It stands to reason, then, that if we "have God in" at corporate worship, that both he and we speak to one another. We hear him through his Word, and he hears us through our words.

Now, for our corporate speech to God to succeed and be meaningful, there must be a plan for this speech, just as much as there must be a plan for the reading and preaching of his Word, and the singing of Psalms and hymns. This plan must be definitive where Scripture is definitive, and be planned wisely by the leadership of the church where the church must (or may) make choices.

This plan is traditionally called "liturgy."