Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode I'm

joined by two very special guests. My first guest is Dr. Johnny Gibson.

He's an assistant professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, but you'll hear his accent.

While he was born in England, he was raised in Northern Ireland,

and it's a pleasure to have you, Dr Gibson.

Thanks very much, Steve. It's a pleasure to be on the program. I'm also joined by his co-author

Mark Erngi. Mark is Australian, but he's currently in the UK. He's an Anglican minister from

Sydney and he's currently undertaking doctoral studies at

Oxford. Mark it's a pleasure to have you on the program. Thank you very much.

Good to be here. Well these two have collaborated on a book that I just love the title.

It's Reformation worship, select liturgies from the past for the present.

I love that it's about the reformation, that it's about worship, and I love this idea that it is the past for the present.

So gentlemen let me just turn this question back to you.

Why did you do this book and what is this book about?

Well, we're both Christian ministers.

I was a Christian minister in Cambridge, England for two, three years and I had sabbatical

leave and I was tasked by my denomination, the International

Presbyterian Church in the UK, to put together some resources for liturgy to be used in our churches.

And long story short, I happened upon a few rich liturgical sources from the

reformation era and I went off down rabbit trails and thought it would be wonderful to have all of these liturgies that were written in the 16th century put together in one volume and updated and translated and collated all together for

pastors and ministers as I found it a great help as I was leading worship each

week to actually be delving into some of the orders of service and the prayers and the readings and how they thought about worship as reformers in the 16th century.

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