St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

We continue our theme of Why Liturgy? Today's talk deals with countering rival liturgies, disordered desires, habits, attitudes, dispositions, impulses and actions, which come from below (the world, the flesh and the devil, the old order, the old Adam, the old creation) with the new liturgies of the Kingdom of God (virtuous habits of Christlike dispositions). According to Colossians 3, Christlike virtues are formed within the Kingdom community at worship. It's a matter of re-habituating one's baptismal life, taking off the old and dressing in the new, Christ in all his radiant splendor. We are drawing from the work of James K. A. Smith: Imagining the Kingdom and You Are What You Love. May the Church of God remain in the only Story of reality, Christ. May Christ be formed within us. Amen.