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    Ordered Liberty in Worship

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    ‘ORDERED LIBERTY’ IN WORSHIP for UiW2
    Introduction
    On any Sunday, a variety of people will gather together to worship God. There will be women, men,
    young, old. Worship will be offered in a variety of tongues, and in a variety of styles. Not all will worship in
    a church building.
    The Uniting Church in Australia has inherited a particular approach to worship. Its heritage is not that of
    the Prayer Bo[...]dist inheritance, we have received an approach
    to worship that has been named ‘Ordered Liberty’ by part[...]od.
    The first edition of ‘Ordered Liberty’ in Worship was requested by the Eighth Assembly and approved[...]he ‘essential’ parts of the major services
    of worship (the Service of the Lord’s Day, baptism and rel[...]that need to be included for a ‘full diet’ of worship. Two
    services of worship, both drawn from Uniting in Worship 2 and following ‘Ordered Liberty’, may look very
    different indeed; this is because worship is not something we write, but something we do. Factors such as
    the setting of a service of worship, the way the people use their bodies, and the mus[...]very great bearing on the service.
    Uniting Church worship may make use of a wider variety of resources than is found in Uniting in Worship 2.
    Care should be taken that the meaning and intention of such resources is consistent with similar resources
    in Uniting in Worship 2, and with Assembly statements concerning doctri[...]n to the 1998 edition of ‘Ordered Liberty’ in Worship quoted Robert Gribben’s A Guide to
    Uniting in Worship, now out of print. Gribben writes:
    Uniting in Worship will guide you through what is essential, and wha[...]e are obvious. (p.
    14)
    and
    Uniting in Worship is closer to a Directory than a book of common pr[...]ith a vast resource of further material for
    worship from our own historical traditions, and from othe[...]6)
    These words may still be applied to Uniting in Worship 2. Within the book, the provisions of ‘Ordered Liberty’
    in Worship are contained in A Short Guide to the Serv[...]
    [...]on. They are appended to
    ‘Ordered Liberty’ in Worship for UIW2.

    The Service of the Lord’s Day and
    Th[...]differ from SLD-1.)

    1 Call to Worship
    (3) Lament (where this for[...]
    [...]ognised that the Marriage Service is a service of worship, with scripture readings,
    proclamation of[...]

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