Blended Worship

We should not simply craft forms of worship that allow us essentially to have our private quiet times in a big room with lots of other people. Rather, the forms of our worship should deliberately bring us together as a body of worshipers. We want to work hard to cultivate a corporate experience in a very individualized day and age that sets out difficulties for the gospel. This, it seems, is at least in part what is behind Paul’s instructions to the Corinthians to “wait for one another” when they celebrated the Lord’s Supper (1 Cor 11:33). It is not that they could not meaningfully reflect on Christ’s death individually. Rather the whole purpose of the meal being a communal, corporate meal was that their worship was to be an expression of love for one another (11:21-22) and unity as the body of Christ (10:17). —Michael Lawrence and Mark Dever, “Blended Worship, ” in Perspectives on Christian Worship, 250