Liturgy is a fancy word for repeated, formative, ordered practices. Anglicans have understood worship to be the end goal of every person but people often worship the wrong things. So Anglicans use the Book of Common Prayer to shape our hearts to want God in the right ways.

The writer of Hebrews says with regard to Old Testament worship, “They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things” (8:5). To be sacramental means that visible signs point to an invisible reality. All things point to God in one way or another (Romans 1:20) but baptism and the Lord’s Supper give to Christians the things they signify — namely, Jesus Christ himself.

Anglicans are the third largest Christian denomination with about 80 million global members. Anglicans stem from the church of England which was formed during the 1500’s. However, Anglicans also trace their history back to the undivided church of the late 500’s when Gregory the Great sent Augustine of Canterbury to spread the gospel to the Angels. In this way, Anglicans are evangelistic.

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