Sorry if I sound grumpy today. It might be my age. I am not usually a huge fan of contemporary worship songs. I don’t like extended chorus singing. This is the stuff of nightmares for me. I can pull off a few tunes with everyone else but then my mind wanders. Sometimes I sit down on…
Read MoreInnovative worship shift
“The edges and images of congregational vitality continually shifted over the last half of the twentieth century“. David A. Roozen. From “A Decade of Change in American Congregations 2000-2010” [PDF] which claims to be the largest national survey of congregations ever conducted in the U.S. HT: Faith Communities Today, TJ
Read MoreSpecial needs children in church
If Elevation Church can't handle a special needs child in their distraction-free seeker sensitve service, then how the heck will they put up with my Pentecostal friends from Brazil??? Now that's some yellin' and whoopin'. I tell ya! I dont mean to make light of the situation. Its an emotional issue on the blogs right…
Read MoreCurating Worship
A passage I read this morning from One Year Bible Blog was from Joshua: "And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan." We might say that Joshua 'curated' the stones, or set them up in a way that they would tell their story to those who saw…
Read More