David Chilton and his son, Nathan, discuss liturgy after visiting another church.  Quite interesting.

(HT:  Douglas Wilson)

“But,” said Peace, “I can prove that their pain must come to an end, and suffering is bound to turn to happiness in the end. For if they had never known any suffering, they could never know happiness. No man can grasp what pleasure is who has never suffered, or understand hunger who has never been without food. I am sure that if there were no night, no one would know for certain the meaning of day!…For until we meet with Scarcity no one knows what it is to have enough. And so God of His goodness placed the first man, Adam, in a state of contentment and perfect happiness, and then allowed him to sin and experience sorrow, so that he might learn for himself what real happiness was.”

(Langland, Piers Plowman, as quoted by Douglas Jones in his essay, Where Righteousness and Mercy Kiss: Deep Thanks for the Protestant Heart in his and Douglas Wilson’s book, Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth.)