A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship
Overview
Across the spectrum, there seems to be a general vagueness about the God we worship and the purpose of worship. Do we have to settle for either dull routine or perpetual innovation?
In this penetrating examination of worship, Michael Horton demonstrates that there’s a better way. Dig below the surface of today’s worship wars and rediscover the biblical and theological foundations of worship. Only after doing so, Horton contends, can we place Christ back on center stage and restore our unity as the people of God in the presence of God.
Whether you’re a pastor, worship leader, or churchgoer longing to deepen your faith, A Better Way will help you rethink Christian growth and discipleship as it reveals the kind of dramatic, life-revitalizing worship you were created for.
The Logos Bible Software edition of A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship is designed to encourage and stimulate your study of the Bible. Scripture passages link directly to your preferred translation and important theological concepts link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wealth of other resources in your digital library. In addition, you can perform powerful searches by topic and find what other authors, scholars, and theologians have to say about the subject matter, making this collection ideal for studying and interpreting the Bible.
Key Features
- Recovers the sense of redemptive drama
- Discusses the biblical and theological foundations of worship
- Shows how to rethink Christian growth and discipleship
Praise for the Print Edition
This book rescues worship from the earthly fights over how to do it and puts us back in touch with worship as God desires and directs it.
—Marva J. Dawn, teaching fellow in spiritual theology, Regent College
Horton’s enlivening wisdom is surely a godsend to all evangelicals.
—J. I. Packer, Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology, Regent College
There is a distinct weariness with market-driven, showbiz worship. The pendulum has swung to the longing for transcendence, substance, challenge, and biblically-driven worship. Michael Horton shows us the way.
—Robert Webber, founder, The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies
Product Details
- Title: A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship
- Author: Michael Horton
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 2003
- Pages: 256
About Michael Horton
Michael Horton is the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Seminary California. He is the main host of the White Horse Inn radio broadcast and the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. He is the author or editor of more than 20 books.
Top Highlights
“God has promised to save and keep his people through the means he has appointed and through no others; the ordinary means of grace are limited to the preached Word and the administered sacraments; God’s rationale for these means is made explicit in Scripture.” (Page 29)
“The clamor for ‘more excitement’ and ‘more drama’ can lead to two simplistic solutions: a retrenchment of intellectualism or adding our own dramatic gimmicks to God’s worship. The goal of this book, however, is to recover the sense of redemptive drama that we not only see illustrated in Scripture but that the Word and Spirit actually bring into our communal gathering.” (Pages 13–14)
“When God’s people understand who God is, who they are in his presence, and what is happening to them when they come into his presence, not only their minds but their hearts are transformed.” (Page 14)
“but that man should play the tyrant over God and find Him a better man than himself is an astonishing drama indeed.” (Page 10)
“And do not underestimate the power of narratives. A narrative of conquest creates one sort of identity and consequent actions, while a narrative of oppression forms another. We are ‘storied’ people and cannot help but think of ourselves as somehow characters in a plot. Worldviews are, in fact, storied plots: the story of America, the story of political liberation, the story of global capitalism, the story of alienation (existentialism), the story of progress (modernism), the story of nostory-but-only-stories (postmodernism).” (Pages 52–53)
- Title: A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship
- Author: Michael Horton
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Public worship; Public worship › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9781441252166, 0801012341, 9780801064685, 1441252169, 9780801012341, 0801064686
- Resource ID: LLS:BETTRWAYHORTON
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:11:53Z
Michael Horton has taught apologetics and theology at Westminster Seminary California since 1998. In addition to his work at the Seminary, he is the president of White Horse Media, for which he co-hosts the White Horse Inn, a nationally syndicated, weekly radio talk-show exploring issues of Reformation theology in American Christianity. He is also the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation magazine. Before coming to WSC, Dr. Horton completed a Research Fellowship at Yale University Divinity School.
A member of various societies, including the American Academy of Religion and the Evangelical Theological Society, Dr. Horton is the author/editor of 20 books, including a series of studies in Reformed dogmatics, whose final volume (People and Place: A Covenant Ecclesiology) was published in 2008. In addition to the popular Putting Amazing Back Into Grace, Dr. Horton’s latest books are Covenant and Salvation: Union with Christ, Lord and Servant: A Covenant Christology, and A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship. He has written articles for Modern Reformation, Pro Ecclesia, Christianity Today, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, Touchstone, and Books and Culture. Dr. Horton is a minister in the United Reformed Churches in North America. He has served two churches in Southern California. He resides in Escondido, California, with his wife, Lisa, and their four children.