Footnotes 1 From the Works of John Wesley, Vol. 7, ed. Franz Hildebrandt and Oliver Beckerlegge. © 1983 by Abingdon Press. Used by permission. All of the stanzas that follow, in the Preface, are from this same hymn.
2 Koinonia [fellowship, communion] “...the expression of Christian love among believers, expressed in worship,...the sacraments (especially the Lord’s Supper), and in simple social activities, e.g., meals taken together and recreation or physical work done for the church or for the larger community.” William Getz, Ed., The Dictionary of Bible and Religion (Nashville: Abingdon, 1986).
3 Garrett-Evangelical study, quoted from United Methodist News Service, Newscope, 1/22/99.
4 “Maker, in Whom We Live,” Charles Wesley, 1747 (UMH #88).
5 Chad Martin, “Carnival: A Theology of Laughter and a Ritual for Social Change,” Worship, 73:1 (January 1999), 45.
6 Evelyn Underhill, Worship (London: Nisbet & Co., Ltd., 1936), p. 77.
7 Dick Teresi, “Zoro,” The Atlantic Monthly (July 1997). Online at www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jul/zero.htm: 3-4.
8 See Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book III: 16:6; 18:6; 20.2
9 Alexander Schmemann, Introduction to Liturgical Theology (London: Faith Press, 1966).
10 Donald Saliers, Worship as Theology: Foretaste of Glory Divine (Nashville: Abingdon, 1994).
11 Ibid.
12 Gayle Felton, This Gift of Water: The Practice and Theology of Baptism Among Methodists in America (Nashville: Abingdon, 1992), p. 178.
13 Ada Maria Isasi-Díaz, in “Love of Neighbors,” in Lift Every Voice, Susan Brooks Thistlewaite and Mary Potter Engel, editors (San Francisco: Harper, 1990).
14 Westerhoff, John H. III, Bringing Up Children in the Christian Faith (Winston Press, 1980), p. 21.
15 Hickman, Saliers, Stookey, and White, The New Handbook of the Christian Year (Nashville: Abingdon, 1992), p. 252. Used by permission.
16 The United Methodist Book of Worship, #420. Used by permission.
17 The United Methodist Hymnal, #721. Used by permission.
18 At the Lord’s Table (Nashville: Abingdon, 1981), p. 57. Used by permission.
19 Hickman, Saliers, Stookey, and White, The New Handbook for the Christian Year (Nashville: Abingdon, 1992), p. 257. Used by permission.
20 The Millerites were one of many apocalyptic groups in the 19th century that yearned for and predicted a specific “end of the present age.” In the case of Miller’s followers, the people developed a Utopian community as they awaited and lived through two predictions of Christ’s second coming. Many of the early Millerites disbanded, but others regrouped to form the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
21 From The Daily Office: A Book of Hours for Daily Prayer, Vol. 1 Copyright © 1998 Order of Saint Luke Publications. Used by permission.
22 From The Daily Office: A Book of Hours for Daily Prayer, Vol. 1. Copyright © 1998 Order of Saint Luke Publications. Used by permission.
23 From The Book of Common Prayer, 1979, p. 831.
24 Adapted from the prayer for illumination in “A Service of Word and Table I,” The United Methodist Hymnal (Nashville: The United Methodist Publishing House, 1989), p. 6. Used by permission.
26 ”Covenant Prayer in the Wesleyan Tradition,” UMH #607. Used by permission.
27 The last sentence is based on a prayer by Richard of Chichester. A musical setting can be found in Hymnal 1982 (New York: The Church Hymnal Corporation, 1985).
28 UMH #168. Words by Carolyn M. Noel, 1870.
29 From The Daily Office: A Book of Hours for Daily Prayer, Vol. 1 Copyright © 1998 Order of Saint Luke Publications. Used by permission.
30 From The Daily Office: A Book of Hours for Daily Prayer, Vol. 1 Copyright © 1998 Order of Saint Luke Publications. Used by permission.
31 From The Daily Office: A Book of Hours for Daily Prayer, Vol. 1 Copyright © 1998 Order of Saint Luke Publications. Used by permission.
32 Ibid. Used by permission.
33 Watch Night Song. Lyrics copyright © 1999 by Elizabeth Stroud Campbell. Reproduced by permission.
| Introduction | Preface | Contents | Copyright |
| Millennial Perspectives | Worship and Study Resources |
| Seven Days of Praise and Prayer |Prayer and Worship for a Jubilee Week | The Last Letter: Revelation’s News | Repairing the World: God's Gift of Jubilee
| Hymns | Additional Liturgical Resources | Appendix |