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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThere are more I can\u2019t play or do, or choose not to. I know\nthe basic of flute, violin, guitar, but I don\u2019t yet have enough command of any\nof these to be able to play them on my own, let alone in a team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A team. A community. We can\u2019t be every role in every situation. We can\u2019t do every responsibility in every liturgical requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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God designs his creation as a community. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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His community requires those who have spiritual matters as primary responsibility. Be them vicars, pastors, elders, full-time workers, youth pastors, deacons, mission workers, priests, worship pastors, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leviticus 2:7-10 instructs the people to \u2018present\u2019 their sacrificial\nofferings to the priest, who then carries out further liturgical actions \u2013\nburning it at the altar as sweet smelling offering to God. To present the\nofferings in this case carries the meaning of making a gift to someone more\nsuperior or of higher imminence to you, or simply of imminence. It is to\npresent something first belonging to you. There is a lot more we can say about\nthis, but that will be for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to focus on the fact that in those days, the priests\nhad the divine (godly) calling and responsibility (to the point of death) of\nthe link between the people of that time and God. Yes, yes, yes, priests were\nfrom the tribe of Levites. Why there was such a \u2018need\u2019 is subject for books,\nlibraries, some yet to be written as this is age-old and on-going debates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As recorded in the New Testament, Jesus has fulfilled the Old Testament requirement for priesthood and this arrangement for priest is no longer required or applicable today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again, go back, and I want to focus on the mere point that if you were not priest, you hadn\u2019t had responsibility of the priest. If you were a priest, that will be your responsibility: you can dial God in an instance, so will He you. It’s a privilege. A privilege where you had no choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe \u2018arrangement\u2019 in those days was that you present your\noffering to the priest who would then burn it up for you. The instruction here\nis both for the people and for the priests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is mountain of literature written that this \u2018arrangement\u2019 is part of the law of the people then. I know, this priestly arrangement is legal code. Still, it did not say for example \u201cYou must use oil\u201d, or \u201cYou must not use yeast\u201d. Perhaps it\u2019s a translation and transmission problem \/ issue, mutiply that by hundreds of decades of interpretations and debates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My friend, who has Asperger syndrome, pointed to a block of biblical text and said \u201cit does not say that\u201d. He was not referring to Leviticus, but to a passage in one New Testament epistle. True, the text does not say those \u2018additional stuff\u2019 that we were \u2018reading back into the text\u2019. What we said, the \u2018additional information\u2019 stuff, was not in the text, and to him, if it is that important, then it would have been in there. Sure, it\u2019s not always as black as white as that (what was obvious then is not obvious now).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s get back to the point, again \u2013 with some degree of controversy, perhaps I can simply read it as it is, removing the centuries of stuff, and simply read it as when you prepare that offering, you then take it to the priest who will do the task for you as he is tasked by God to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You don\u2019t expect the cellist to play the euphonium, the worship leader to act in the capacity of audio controller, the Bible reader playing the organ. Except they are able to do it and assigned to do that for that service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
God designs his creation as a community.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do you play the drum in your worship team? Flute? Harp? Bass guitar? Cello? Or do you sing? Worship leader? On the audio-visual? Maybe the saxophone? Organ? Violin? Rhythm guitar? I usually play the piano, but I very much prefer to play the drum set. There are more I can\u2019t play or do, or choose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-book-of-leviticus","8":"category-ingredients-for-worship","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elts.org.uk\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}