Worship Ways: For the People Within Your Reach
Ebook
Overview
Accelerating diversity of lifestyles has created a crisis for worship designers. One size does not fit all. No worship service can be “blended” to address the complete needs of a congregation. Moreover, church “shopping” is ending as people are choosing a worship service that directly meets their fundamental anxieties about life (regardless of style). Learn to use lifestyle information in worship planning to design a service that truly reaches the people in your community. This book explains why people worship and guides leaders to design relevant worship services that address people’s sense of urgency. It is both practical and theological. The decline of worship attendance in all denominations, and across all “traditional” or “contemporary” styles, is reshaping the quest for relevance. Church leaders are turning away from methods to outcomes. People will only participate in worship if it really matters to the fundamental issues that they face.
Creating worship to reach the people in your community.
A groundbreaking new way to view the people in your community, so that you can serve them (and God s mission for your church) effectively in worship.
Charts, diagrams, and well organized material is easy to understand and to share with staff and laity.
Offers both foundational new approach and practical, tactical steps, includes perspectives for virtually every church in North America.
Readers will learn how to truly see and know the people in their community, whom they should be serving and including in worship.
Readers will learn how to evaluate and redesign every aspect of worship from hospitality to service format to musical style so that their worship services truly connect people to God in the context of their unique community.
Product Details
- Title : Worship Ways: For the People Within Your Reach
- Authors:
- Bandy, Thomas G.
- Holmes, Lucinda S.
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9781426796272