Issue
Assemble My People: The Worship Event
Vol. 8, No. 6 • Nov/Dec 1999
As members trickled in for the later service, folks greeted each other with either short, happy hugs or long and comforting embraces. A musician encouraged the members to join in the songs-accented by bongo drums and electric guitars-when the spirit filled them. A large screen projected the words, but many of the members knew the […]
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Worshiping the Lamb or Entertaining the Sheep?
As members trickled in for the later service, folks greeted each other with either short, happy hugs or long and comforting embraces. A musician encouraged the members to join in the songs-accented by bongo drums and electric guitars-when the spirit filled them. A large screen projected the words, but many of the members knew the […]
Worship for 2000 and Beyond
Thesis I: The Main Purpose of Worship Is to Receive God’s Gifts If you were to ask what “worship” is, most people would probably respond, “Worship is praising the Lord”; or “Worship is what human beings do to express their thanks to God”; or “Worship is going to church”; or something like that. While there […]
The Word Proclaimed
Proposed: God has promised to save and keep his people through the means he has appointed and through no others; the ordinary means of grace are limited to the preached Word and the administered Sacraments; God’s rationale for these means is made explicit in Scripture. This thesis, which was so widely accepted as to be […]
Music Acceptable to God
In the worship wars of recent years the nastiest battles have erupted over music. What should we sing? Who should sing? What tunes should we sing? What instruments should accompany the Church’s singing-if any? Why do we sing? Most often it seems that the armies arrayed on the varying sides of issues have fought under […]
Reflections on Contemporary/Alternative Worship
By the Commission on Worship, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod In Revelation 5 the apostle John records a wondrous vision of heaven in which the whole heavenly host is gathered around the throne of the triune God. (1) In joyous song they proclaim the work of salvation accomplished by the Lamb of God-our Lord Jesus Christ-and raise […]
Is Contemporary Worship Becoming Self-Critical?
In preparing for a lecture recently, I picked up an issue of Worship Leader, a publication of the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) industry. Having experienced that world, I was not surprised that one of the first articles (written by a minister calling himself “Reformed”) was premised on the assumption that music is somehow a means […]
