Quotations concerning Worship

From the Scriptures

From the Confessions

Thus the worship and divine service of the Gospel is to receive from God gifts; on the contrary, the worship of the Law is to offer and present our gifts to God...This passage, too, brings the greatest consolation, as the chief worship of the Gospel is to wish to receive remission of sins, grace, and righteousness.  Of this worship Christ says, John 6, 40: This is he will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son, and belieiveth on Him, may have everlasting life.

          AP III, paragraph 189, Triglotta, pg. 207

From the Patristic Fathers

From the LCMS Fathers

It is too bad that such entirely different ceremonies prevail in our Synod, and that no liturgy at all has yet been introduced in many congregations.  The prejudice especially against the responsive chanting of pastor and congregation is of course still very great with many people—this does not, however, alter the fact that it is very foolish.  The pious church father Augustine said, “Qui cantat, bis orat—he who sings prays twice.”

C.F.W. Walther, Explanation of Thesis 17 in “The True Visible Church”