For a long time I have heard that Worship Leaders “usher people into the presence of God”. While this does Promote a significant weight to the task at hand, it may be to close to an overly religious view of what is going on when we gather to sing.
I’m currently reading through Worship Matters by [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Church’
Mediation in Worship
Posted in Theology, tagged Church, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Music, presence of God, usher, worship on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spiritual Impact of Musical Worship
Posted in Theology, tagged Church, God, spiritual warfare, Spirituality, worship on October 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Leading music in a corporate gathering can quickly become something that we “just do”. We can spend the majority of our time preparing for it; picking music, planning the structure and flow of the service, arranging the songs to fit our people and that specific service, practicing, rehearsing, setting up, media production, fixing the problems [...]
| The early Church Model |
Posted in Praxis, tagged Church, Culture, emerging, Evangelical, Liberal left, Love, pagan, Religious right on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some have idealized the early church as the ultimate model of the church. Others look at it and say that it was the very first form of church and way more problems than it had successes. I see it as a model of church for the time that they lived in. the culture was pagan [...]