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 Write our Protopresbyter Georges Florovsky's words quoted on page 271, and give your interpretation of these words.

Christianity is a liturgical religion. The Church is first of all a worshiping community. Worship comes first, doctrine and discipline second [Protopresbyter Georges Florovsky].

Important as doctrine and discipline are in the life of the Church, there is something more important: worship, and that worship is above all else communal and liturgical in character. In attending the Divine Liturgy, which is the central mystical action of the entire Church, Christians gather in the unity of one heart, one mind, and one soul to pray as a community, to unite themselves and their concerns with the prayer of the Church and with the eternal prayer of Christ, the Theotokos, the saints, and the individual members of that particular Christian community.

            Philip said to Nathanael: “Come and see” (Jn 1:46). Likewise, those wishing to know about Orthodoxy should follow the example of Vladimir's entourage by coming to see the Liturgy, for it is a much more direct way of understanding the faith than by reading books.