There’s an old adage, typically used by educators, that “external order organizes internal experience.” When it comes to worship, the proper use of order facilitates how a church tells and acts out the story of salvation so that the congregation’s internal experience of being encountered by the story will be maximized. The ancient order of worship, one that is still practiced by liturgical churches today, was a unified four-fold action 1) Preparing to worship; 2) Celebrating the Word along with a response; 3) Celebrating the Lord’s Table along with a response; 4) The dismissal...