The Yoke and Corporate Worship

If there were to be a single paper to really sum up my seminary career, a thesis if you will, it would have probably been an expanded edition of my paper entitled "A Philosophy of Liturgy and Spiritual Formation." This paper sought to answer the question, "What, if any, is the role of liturgy in the spiritual formation of a believer?" In the midst of the paper, I stumbled onto what my professor called an "ethic for corporate worship." In other words, what are the behaviors and characteristics that should shape the maturing Christian worshiper?

Yet does the Great Invitation in Matthew 11, wherein Christ invites us into the yoke of apprenticeship, affect how we think about the role of corporate worship in spiritual formation? For some reason, I think that it might. I will think about it.