A Royal “Waste” of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World

by Marva Dawn

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1999

Overview

Following up on her best-selling Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, Marva Dawn offers biblically grounded, experienced insights to help churches navigate beyond today’s destructive worship wars and to stimulate renewal in the worship and life of congregations. The first major section of the book examines the postmodern, media-saturated, consumerist culture that makes worship difficult yet absolutely essential. The next section focuses on keeping God at the center of worship. Other sections of the book explore issues of taste, forming faith in children, word choices, hospitality in worship, and the challenges of “being church for the world.” The book also includes nine Scripture-based sermons and questions for further discussion. In contrast to writers who advocate worship for utilitarian purposes, Dawn concentrates on worship’s royal dimension, its God-ward focus. A Royal “Waste” of Time amplifies Dawn’s earlier argument that churches need to wrangle seriously with the true purpose of worship in order to employ the tools and forms that best enfold participants in the splendor of worshiping God. Only worship filled with the splendor of God, Dawn writes, will lead to genuine adoration of God and faithful formation of his people.

Product Details

• Title: A Royal “Waste” of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World
• Author: Marva Dawn
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 1999
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Public worship; Public worship › Sermons; Sermons, American
• ISBNs: 9780802845863, 080284586X
• Resource ID: LLS:ROYALWASTEOFTIME
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:46:41Z

About Marva Dawn

Marva J. Dawn serves as theologian and educator with Christians Equipped for Ministry of Vancouver, Washington. Five of her books have been honored with a place on the Academy of Parish Clergy annual list of their top ten books, most recently in 2007. She is known throughout the world for her best-selling devotional and theological books and for her popular lectures on worship, ministry, and church and family life.