In reply to Kyle (Student).

Thanks for sharing a snippet of the post! I'm glad it was helpful for you.

I'd suggest that what worked in the original Liturgy is actually the very same thing that works in a non-traditional worship service... God is working. We receive the gifts that only Jesus can give and we respond to those gifts.

And in order to do so and invite others into it, we need to speak the language of the people we are trying to reach.

For youth, you need to speak the language of the youth (and by speak, I think we can expand that beyond words into styles). For our overall congregations, we need to speak the language of our communities. As a denomination, we at some point decided to do our services in English.

Heck, we recently began a service with a re-written version of the Kyrie and a moment of Confession/Absolution, this isn't really changed from what would be considered "traditional," it just looked and felt different in our context.

Kyle, God's blessings on your ministry at the correctional facility!