Called to Worship

Whatever else God calls us to, we are called to worship, to do so together,and to do so in the promised company of Jesus Christ. It is in worship that our lives are expressed before God and informed and converted by God’s Word. It is in worship that through song, prayer, and preaching, our theology is formed, our discipleship encouraged, and our spirits nourished. In worship we reach out to touch the hem of Christ’s garment and find that, instead of touching the hem, we are being offered the grace of God by word of mouth and gift of hand.

From the Book of Common Order of the Church of Scotland, St. Andrew Press, Edinburgh, 1994, p. ix.