Hi members of the Worship Committee
This is the place we can put our ideas and thoughts about a vision for worship at Langley Immanuel Christian Reformed Church. We hope that this will become our workspace for communication on this issue. Blog away!
Some guidelines as you Blog.
If you are coming up with new ideas or proposals, post your blog rather than just giving a comment. That way, your ideas will be highlighted with headings. If you just comment, they will go under the Blog that is already posted.
Well thought out - Piper on the Emotions of worship. Connect to this link
http://www.desiringgod.org/dg/id45.htm
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Our church's Vision Statement states the following:
"Immanuel Church seeks to glorify God by gathering and growing His people…"
In particular, this vision statement works out the word "glorify" as follows:
"To glorify is to worship God through our worship services that
are Contemporary-Reformed
and through our lives of service in this His world."
A worship statement somehow needs to take this vision statement into account, or, if it doesn't, perhaps a revised vision statement needs to be considered.
The purpose of any worship statement is:
- to provide a helpful tool for the congregation, the church's leadership and worship planners
- to provide a foundation and standard of reference
A good worship statement will serve three healthy purposes:
1. It is a formational tool. We are being formed in the process of worshipping to honour God. Worship is shaped by our theology, yet the way we worship can reshape both our theology and our identity.
2. It is a measurement tool. An unambiguous set of criteria as the standard for measurement in planning, leading and evaluating worship services. It states the essentials (the center) and the boundaries (the edges) of what we believe true worship is (discernment tool).
3. It is a teaching tool. Part of the worship leaders' task is to teach the congregation what it is they are engaged in each Sunday .
A worship statement format could take the following format:
Statement
Principle(s)
Background(s)
Application/Implication(s)
Pastor Bill started with "Starbucks", which reminded me of an interesting article in "Prespectives - A journal of Reformed Thought", using a similar "metaphor", which you can find at: www.perspectivesjournal.org/2003/02/seeit-starbucks.html.
The article "Liturgy and Starbucks" was written by Quinn Fox, Minister of Adult Ed at the First Presbyterian Church of Colorado Springs, Colorada.
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