I read an interesting post earlier this week by Tim Stevens about the way one church in Mississippi is organizing their weekend worship and music. Essentially they hire a different worship leader each weekend instead of paying one or two people to be the worship pastor (s). Here is how Tim explains their strategy: A…
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A Theology of Worship // Part Four
This will be the last post in this series you can catch out the other posts if you want: Part One // Part Two // Part Three A Theology. At this point it would be good to examine two different types of worship that James Torrance labels “Unitarian worship” and “Trinitarian worship.” At face value…
A Theology of Worship // Part Three
Part Two Worship in the New Testament. If I could summarize the shift in how worship is presented in the New Testament from the Old Testament it would be with this: Jesus. The book of Hebrews provides a beneficial outline for coming to this conclusion. The Old Testament placed great value in worship through the…
A Theology of Worship // Part Two
Part One Worship in the Old Testament. Before we can come up with a theology of worship we must begin by looking at the subject from a biblical standpoint. In the Bible the English word “worship” is derived from four different Hebrew words and six different Greek words (in the NIV). A quick study of…
A Theology of Worship // Part One
Over the next couple weeks I am going to post my theology of worship, as it stands right now (in several posts). As with many theological positions, I tend to shift my perspective as time moves on. So don’t take these posts as Gospel or even as the correct way to view worship. I’m merely…
Freedom in Worship
Over the weekend I went back and forth as to whether I should share something that was on my heart during Sunset’s services on Sunday or not. In the end I decided to only share it in the 11 because it tied in very well with the first 2 songs. Here is basically what I…