Category: Philosophy of Worship
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Finding Christ's songs in your congregation
I recently read Reggie Kidd’s With One Voice. So much good stuff in it about Christ as our singing Savior…
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Worship leaders can be cool. Biblical worship can’t be.
From Bob Kauflin… By nature, “cool” describes something that the world esteems as hip, desirable, elitist, and perhaps elusive. Biblical…
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Worship as Counter-cultural
From the Nairobi Statement on Worship and Culture… 4.1. Jesus Christ came to transform all people and all cultures, and…
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Three Levels of Participation in Worship
Don Saliers (in Music in Christian Worship) presented the idea of three levels of participation in worship. The first level…
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Len Sweet on the Arts in Church
from The Work of the People
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Ways to Hear the Word of God in Worship – Silence
Silence has long occupied an important role in both individual and corporate worship. Its presence implies the fulfillment of a…
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Ways to Hear the Word of God in Worship – Sermon
The “scripting” of preaching can, like a bad play, be pre- dictable and dull. Even worse, it can be manipulative.…
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Ways to Hear the Word of God in Worship – Music
For worshipers sensitive to the aesthetic dimensions of well- crafted music performed convincingly, experiencing such a moment in the context…
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Ways to Hear the Word of God in Worship – Scripture
Given the clear precedent for the reading of scripture in wor- ship, and given the importance attributed to scripture as…
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Thoughts on Patriotic Music in Worship
from Bob Kauflin… In brief, since God’s kingdom is not of this world (Jn. 18:36), we don’t feel any obligation…
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