Brian
Puritan Board Freshman
What place, if any, should corporate silence have in our liturgies?
"Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God. " Deuteronomy 27:9
"For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence,for my hope is from him. " Psalm 62:5
"But the LORD is in his holy temple;let all the earth keep silence before him." Habakkuk 2:20
"Be silent before the Lord GOD! Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling. " Zechariah 1:7, 2:13
Does anybody know any historical precedence for a time of silence? I know about silence during the confession, and perhaps during the Eucharist, and also during the prelude as a time of quieting one's heart, but what about just for who God is? Is there a time where we don't pray, don't meditate, don't do anything, except stand still and put our hands on our mouths in deference to the Glory of Israel? To proclaim that He is God and we are not? Historically again, was there any reason that this is typically left out of liturgies?
I would think that a recovery of this would help in our transcendence-challenged evangellyfish services.
I appreciate your thoughts.
In stillness and silence before Him,
BRIAN
"Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, "Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God. " Deuteronomy 27:9
"For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence,for my hope is from him. " Psalm 62:5
"But the LORD is in his holy temple;let all the earth keep silence before him." Habakkuk 2:20
"Be silent before the Lord GOD! Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling. " Zechariah 1:7, 2:13
Does anybody know any historical precedence for a time of silence? I know about silence during the confession, and perhaps during the Eucharist, and also during the prelude as a time of quieting one's heart, but what about just for who God is? Is there a time where we don't pray, don't meditate, don't do anything, except stand still and put our hands on our mouths in deference to the Glory of Israel? To proclaim that He is God and we are not? Historically again, was there any reason that this is typically left out of liturgies?
I would think that a recovery of this would help in our transcendence-challenged evangellyfish services.
I appreciate your thoughts.
In stillness and silence before Him,
BRIAN