Lutheran worship calls people to faith again and again through the proclamation of the Gospel through Word and Table. In this service, God acts and the people respond. In form, Lutheran worship is both evangelical and Catholic.
The pattern of Lutheran worship becomes clear-even exciting-once one perceives that its meaning is dependent on a series of paradoxes. Lutherans desire to be evangelical in their worship, to see to it that everything serves to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ....
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