Beggars learn to receive from God in the order of Divine Service

In his book Grace Upon Grace—Spirituality for Today, John W. Kleinig describes what it means to be a spiritual beggar and explains how the classical Lutheran order of worship the Divine Service teaches us poor beggars how to receive from the gracious hand of our ever giving God.

Because our spiritual life and health depends on receiving from Christ, we exercise our faith by becoming beggars before God. And that’s not easy for us who fancy that we are producers of spiritual goods and owners of spiritual gifts. The place to begin learning to receive is our regular involvement in the Divine Service. The classical order for the Service of Word and Sacrament puts us and keeps us in the position of beggars before God. It invites us to join the company of holy beggars in four important places.

• In the Kyrie (Lord Have Mercy), we begin our worship by approaching the risen Lord Jesus and crying, “Lord, have mercy!”
• In the Gloria in Excelsis (Glory to God in the Highest), we stand before God the Father, together with angels in the heavenly realm, and ask for Jesus to intercede for us with Him there.
• In the Prayer of the Church, we beg for help from God the Father for the entire Church, the entire world, and all people in need in the name of Jesus.
• But, most significantly, in the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God), we come as beggars to Jesus, the host of our Holy Meal, to receive His peacemaking body and blood as food for our journey to heaven.

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We best learn the art of begging from God, quite practically, by bringing ourselves and others, our needs and theirs, each week to Him in the Divine Service. That then colors our attitude to God and our witness to the people around us. In relation to God we become people of prayer. In our witness to associates we do not come across as spiritual millionaires, but as beggars telling other beggars where to find bread.

[Grace Upon Grace: Spirituality for Today by John W. Kleinig, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, 2008 A.D., page 55. Bullet points added].