Interestingly, this is what happens at Duke Chapel most Sundays. The first Sunday of the month is Communion Sunday and then on normal Methodist service of the word Sundays, communion happens immediately after in the small side chapel.
While not strictly in this liturgy, this is the structure that we adopted in the church plant I led. We also moved to using MP as ante-communion in my sending parish in 2020, when communion was not happening very often. It is very effective. Admittedly, the parish was used to longer than typical Anglican sermons, with 20-25 min.
I'll just note that while I agree in theory that a longer sermon to teach doctrine (3) would be good, that presupposes that clergy both are capable of engaging longer sermons (instead of rambling ones) and that they themselves believe in the basic doctrines. Not that you're not well aware of these problems, but these do limit the application of this idea.
Coming from a background where MP was the norm and HC was the first Sunday of the month, it's been difficult adapting to the HC model for the single service for a group of on average 10 to 12. I like the idea proposed in this article about doing MP followed by litany or AC. When I first attended one of the continuing churches and noted that the OT reading was the only addition to the HC service they used I had reservations about the lack of what I will term the Protestant patrimony in traditional continuing churches I've observed.
Interestingly, this is what happens at Duke Chapel most Sundays. The first Sunday of the month is Communion Sunday and then on normal Methodist service of the word Sundays, communion happens immediately after in the small side chapel.
While not strictly in this liturgy, this is the structure that we adopted in the church plant I led. We also moved to using MP as ante-communion in my sending parish in 2020, when communion was not happening very often. It is very effective. Admittedly, the parish was used to longer than typical Anglican sermons, with 20-25 min.
I'll just note that while I agree in theory that a longer sermon to teach doctrine (3) would be good, that presupposes that clergy both are capable of engaging longer sermons (instead of rambling ones) and that they themselves believe in the basic doctrines. Not that you're not well aware of these problems, but these do limit the application of this idea.
Coming from a background where MP was the norm and HC was the first Sunday of the month, it's been difficult adapting to the HC model for the single service for a group of on average 10 to 12. I like the idea proposed in this article about doing MP followed by litany or AC. When I first attended one of the continuing churches and noted that the OT reading was the only addition to the HC service they used I had reservations about the lack of what I will term the Protestant patrimony in traditional continuing churches I've observed.