Recent Thoughts on Worship
Sally Morgenthaler writes in the May/June 2007 issue of Rev! magazine, “For all the money, time, and effort we’ve spent on cultural relevance—and that includes culturally relevant worship—it seems we came through the last 15 years with a significant net loss in churchgoers, proliferation of megachurches and all.
“As I exit the world of corporate worship, I want to offer this hope and prayer. May you, as leader of your congregation, have the courage to leave the ‘if we build it, they will come’ world of the last two decades behind.”
(HT: Jonny Baker)
Paul Mayers writes (over on Jason Clark’s blog) writes, “In our deconstruction we’ve hit some problem areas that we should not trivalise but after deconstruction we need to start reconstructing — otherwise we are in danger either of staying stuck in our rut, bitterness or adopting our own form of elitism — worship in church with singing is out our new/alternative way is the best …” There’s lots more in this fantastic post. I want to encourage everyone to take a look!
Finally, in her reflections on the recent up/rooted event, Julie Clawson reflects on “Authenticity and Worship.” Julie writes, “I’m not ready to throw out the concept of ‘authentic.’ ... In emerging critiques of evangelical worship (and in evangelical critiques of traditional worship for that matter) there has been a lot of talk about ‘just going through the motions.’ In other words, participating in a false and meaningless form of worship — lying to God. ... I can’t bring myself to say that it is okay to engage in false acts of worship solely for the good of the community. I see no problem with remaining silent and not making a scene about it if one can’t participate, but I can’t justify engaging.”
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