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Is Christian worship for the believer or the skeptic? Is its purpose edification or evangelism? Should worship have depth and substance or should it be accessible to those who know little or nothing about the faith?
Research has shown that young people are abandoning the faith and leaving the church by the time they graduate from college. Might worship be part of the problem?
In a recent essay on "Beauty & Justice," Nicholas Wolterstorff writes "what unites love of understanding, worship, beauty, and justice is that these are all dimensions of shalom.
Based on her forthcoming edited volume of primary sources on worship in Calvin’s Geneva, Karin Maag outlines what happened in Geneva as the city moved from Catholicism to Protestantism.
Since the inception of the New Homiletic in the 1970s, preachers have been experimenting with inductive and narrative forms of preaching, thanks to the likes of Fred Craddock and Eugene Lowry. The idea is for sermons to engage people, create an experience of the biblical text.
Insights and Wisdom for Churches in Every Cultural Context.
Really? In the face of so much global need, the arts are a necessity?
Any church leadership team that hopes to increase the observance of the Christian year in their congregation will first need to identify how much shaping influence this practice has at present.
A denominational guide to worship resources
A denominational guide to worship resources
On Good Friday, as congregations meditate on the betrayal, suffering, and death of Jesus, some liturgies call the Church to identify with those who judged, persecuted, mocked, and killed our Lord. This is a sobering reality, and appropriate. But, like many stories in the Bible, there are multiple implications within this narrative.
Jorge Navarro found Christ amid the difficult life he had chosen to follow. Drugs of all kinds were his daily bread, until one day everything changed. The force that had fueled his down-slide was the same force that fueled his desire to passionately serve the one who called him.
