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cord-301537-uu2aykoy	Johnston Largen, Kristin	Two things can be true at once: Surviving Covid‐19	2020-05-27		.txt	text/plain	24005	1219	65	One thing that must be addressed before reflecting on particular issue is to define worship from a theological perspective or, to use John Witvliet's (2006) modes of liturgical discourse, in terms of "deep meaning and purpose." For Lutherans the primary theological understanding of worship is as a dialogue between God and humans, or as Luther says in his Torgau sermon, "where our dear [God] may speak to us through [the] holy Word and we respond to [God] through prayer and praise" (Luther, 1959, p. In the Lord's Supper those are (a) "the social and concurrently naturalcultural moment" of shared eating and drinking; (b) the actualization of a "definitive communal relationship between God and humanity" taking place within a physical assembly; (c) convened by and "through the performative Word that has been addressed" to the assembly through bread and wine; (d) the whole action of which is empowered by the presence of the resurrected crucified Jesus (Bayer, pp.	./cache/cord-301537-uu2aykoy.txt	./txt/cord-301537-uu2aykoy.txt