Rituals as a Tudor

Rituals are very much like the Law. So much so they were an integral part of it -- especially with the tithing and the feasts et al. In a way it is a subset, a subsegment of Law. For Law was to be a custodian that brings us to Christ. How about this?

Rituals were a custodian to bring us to the reality of

• our relationship with Christ
• principles of life in Christ
• principles of the invisible but true reality in Christ

Therefore one could say that there is nothing, now, in the applying of rituals to our lives with this purpose -- that the ritual will do anything other than illustrate the unseen reality in Christ. This is perhaps why we are free in Christ. There is not a prescribed iteration of Lord's Supper for example. We are free from the SHOULD aspect for some curse or blessing. We in our freedom are free to remember, to go deeper into that relationship and partaking routinely (if yearly, monthly, randomly, however) helps in such. Perhaps it is not supposed to be a staple, for the only staple is Christ Himself.

Perhaps we SHOULD (hehe, you'll see the joke) not focus so much on the aspects of shoulding -- the regularity, the type of cup, the type of bread, how the bread is broken, how it is shared, etc...
In coming together in Christ, in sharing in His life -- not some simple prayer in His name or just a label for our gatherings -- but coming from TRUE fellowship with our Lord I am confident that God's commanded illustrations will be a part of gatherings as the Spirit sees fit. Perhaps in one group it is regular, in another it is not, and in another it is not even done in this particular gathering. No one is missing His life in the performance and participation in an illustration or ritual -- but if He is not the center, the fulcrum, the crux, the all in all in our walk and gatherings, then the ritual will not help in advancing us in fellowship or our walk anyway.