Profiles

Ron Man (MM, ThM, DMin) was trained as an orchestra conductor, later attended Dallas Theological Seminary, and has served as a pastor, missionary, and worship pastor. Associated with First Evangelical Church in Memphis, Tennessee, for the past 35 years, he now serves as missionary-in-residence there and as director of Worship Resources International. He has taught on worship in forty countries, maintains a website of free worship resources (www.worship-resources.org), writes the monthly newsletter Worship Notes (available through the website), and posts daily “Worship Quotables” (worr.wordpress.com). He is the author of Proclamation and Praise: Hebrews 2:12 and the Christology of Worship (Wipf & Stock, 2007), and his book Let Us Draw Near: Biblical Foundations of Worship has just been released.

Ron serves on the steering committee for the Biblical Worship section of the Evangelical Theological Society (etsworship.wordpress.com) and on the executive board of the Global Consultation on Arts and Music in Missions (www.gcamm.org). He is also an adjunct professor at Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary and Kairos International University.