Formula for a good discussion? Take 120 church worship leaders and put them in a tent with three nationally known worship leader/recording artists and let the audience ask anything they want to know. We start off with each panelist introducing themselves to the crowd.
Jami: I'm from Oklahoma and I've been leading worship for eight ...
I have just had another one of those strange feelings. Another telephone interview has just occurred with an excitable American lady calling from Virginia Beach in Virginia.
She asks me where I'm from and with just a little too much mischief for my spiritual reputation I reply "Littlehampton Beach, Littlehampton". She exclaims "is that in England?" and I reply with even more mischief, "that it is the ...
If a Martian visited earth and observed earthlings at public worship in contemporary or nontraditional settings, what would he/she/it report back to the home planet? (A similar exercise could be imagined for more traditional churches, with different results.)
My friend John, a music professor rather than an extraterrestrial, noticed something too few earthlings have noticed (see his full article at ...
Sally Morgenthaler, whose book Worship Evangelism surfaced above the waves of resources for churches adjusting to changing worship styles, is still trying to help churches stay relevant in worship style to the changing culture of their members. Speaking at forty-plus seminars a year, she is guiding churches to incorporate more of the senses to envelop worshipers in a total experience that gets their ...
For some time now there has been a serious controversy in the body of Christ over music. It has been going on for years and still divides churches more than any other issue.
Why?
It's not a disagreement over biblical commands. Some try to argue that it is, but it's not. Colossians 3:16-17 commands us to sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Psalm 150 commands us to praise God with a variety of instruments. ...