Marva Dawn's book, "Reaching Out without Dumbing Down," offers a compelling study for why the church must continue to utilize the historic liturgy while allowing the freedom to add newer contemporary expressions of faith so long as they complement what has been passed down to today's church from previous generations. I appreciate this quote from Jospeh D. Small and John P. Burgess: When various groups reshape the church's theology and worship according to their own viewpoints or purposes, they splinter the church's life...Without shared standards, the church has no common life of service and proclamation.
