[Magdalen] Anglican Evangelicals.

[Charles Wohlers]

This has not been my experience in the local (Mass.) Methodist Church. 
Worship is fairly formal and much like Morning Prayer - very much like a 
very low Church Episcopal, I'd say. Main difference is all those old 19th c. 
Evangelical hymns I've never heard before. I've never experienced a dialogue 
sermon in the Methodist Church. (OTOH, we did have one last Sunday at the 
Episcopal Church in Montpelier - but that's unusual).

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



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I've commented elsewhere how UMC USA worship patterns have  changed
over the years.  When I was a young man growing up in the church,  there
was a formalized worship style that somewhat resembled Episcopal  Morning
Prayer.

Not any more!  In large and small UMC congregations, a style of  exaggerated
informality has replaced the formalism, and sermons often end up as a  sort
of give and take patter between pulpit and pew.  There is often  sauntering
of servers and clergy about the sanctuary as though it were a family  room.

This all flies in the face of the official UMC tome, "This Holy  Mystery,"
(easily googled) that at times reads as something that might have been
written
at the Vatican.


David Strang.- Former Methodist.