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2020 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Seminar

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This seminar helped worship leaders skillfully guide spiritual novices, skeptics, and, yes, Christian veterans in the grace embedded in the time-tested liturgy and the liturgical year. Discussion about worship hospitality focused on in-between words that frame classic worship elements for mission, alerting attendees to their character and purpose. Participants learned tools to create their own “frames” informed by the church of all ages but customized to their neighborhoods. Anyone who wanted to increasingly offer worship hospitality and heighten their congregation’s mission IQ attended this seminar.

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