Association of Lutheran Church Musicians: A worthy resource on Worship in the Lutheran church

  1.c Worship in Lutheran practice stands unashamedly in the liturgical tradition.

Rooted, reformed, and renewed in the history and experience of the Church, Lutherans-together with much of Christianity-share a concern for ordered worship. It is a Lutheran conviction that the needs of the people at prayer are most effectively met by forms and practices which draw on the collective experience of the whole Church. Lutheran worship is characterized neither by eccentricity nor faddishness, but values stability and continuity with the whole Church. Thus, historic patterns, the Church year, appointed readings and psalms, and a central core of hymnody have a prominent place in Lutheran worship.


[source:  Association of Lutheran Church Musicians   http://www.alcm.org/about/