Rev. Cwirla's Blogosphere – Higher Things Worship
We Lutherans do not use the words “high church” or “low church” to describe worship. Those are Anglican terms. In Anglicanism being “high” or “low” indicates which side of the Anglican “middle way” you are leaning, whether to Rome or to Geneva. Since Lutherans don’t lean, or at least they shouldn’t, and Lutheranism is not a middle way, at least when it’s running on all its cylinders, “high” and “low” don’t do justice to Lutheran worship. You might say that Lutheran worship is always “high” in the sense that it has a profound recognition of the majesty and awe that befit heavenly Jerusalem, and yet it is always “low” in the sense that we don’t reach up to God with our ceremonies but God reaches down to us in Christ through the proclaimed Word and the Sacrament.
Thanks for this useful correction.
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