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A complete guide to developing an alternative worship service for the younger emerging generation.
Publishers Description
Churches are aging. Even among megachurches with their modern technology and huge number of members, whole generations are now missing. In order to reach the 18-35 year olds, churches need to incorporate alternative worship services into their ministries that meet the unique needs of the emerging generations.In a conversational, narrative style, author Dan Kimball guides church leaders on how to create alternative services from start to finish. Using anecdotes from his own experience at Graceland, Kimball presents six creative models, providing real-life examples of each type. Emerging Worship covers key topics including* Developing a prayer team* Evaluating the local mission field and context* Determining leaders and a vision-based team* Understanding why youth pastors are usually the ideal staff to start a new service* Recognizing the difference in values between emerging worship and the rest of the church* Asking critical questions beforehand |
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Pages 272
Dimensions: Length: 0.75" Width: 7.25" Height: 9"
Weight: 0.95 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Feb 1, 2004
Publisher Zondervan Publishing
ISBN 0310256445
EAN 9780310256441
UPC 025986256449
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 | Challenging and insightful Aug 12, 2006 |
Where are all the 18-to-35-year-olds? Thy're not in the mainline churches. They're also not in the conservative evangelical churches! Kimball himself comes from that "camp," and I have significant issues with Kimball's theology (particularly his understanding of salvation). However, Kimball points to a disturbing trend.
"I've had numerous conversations with younger people who told me they left their church to be a disciple of Jesus in a way that makes sense to them," he writes on page xii. "They aren't abandoning their faith. Many choose to form small faith communities and meet in homes among friends. They are waiting for the larger, more organized church to change. This is no cop-out, either. Virtually every young adult I have talked to sincerely tried to bring change to their church and brought suggestions to their church leadership before leaving their church. Most volunteered to start something new. But the suggestions fell on deaf ears with a predetermined view of what emerging generations should be like in relation to 'church.' The closed minds in their church leadership eventually made them choose to leave." I'm struck by those sentences because I myself know people who have done precisely what Kimball describes; I know young adults who have tried to change the institutional church, faced a wall virtually made of bricks, gotten discouraged, and left the institution to find a new (and to them, more authentic) way to be faithful to Jesus Christ.
Kimball offers several models for how to reach this generation. These models are based upon a basic assumption: we need to get away from the idea that the fundamental building block in the church is the weekend worship service, and we need to embrace the idea that the fundamental building block in the church is the church's mission of making disciples.
Wait -- what? You mean the Sunday morning worship service isn't the bedrock of the faith community? Yes, that's precisely what Kimball is saying. Chapter 3 -- "Why This Is a Dangerous Book to Read" -- is, for me, the highlight of the book. Kimball wisely points out that if you are not able to shake yourself loose of some basic assumptions about what it means to "be church," you may find this book deeply troubling. It's no small thing to encourage people to accept the idea that everything they've always thought about "church" might not quite be what Jesus had in mind! | | |  | A very helpful book on emerging worship Apr 29, 2006 |
I just finished reading both The Emerging Church and this book and this book really was as practical as the first one in this series. I loved that the whole first part of the book was building a theology of worship based from the Bible to lay a foundation for what we are even doing with worship services.
The second part of the book was examples from several different churches, not just one, who are focusing on emerging generations. This was helpful to see differences from various emerging churches and how they are designing worship services. I liked that this book is not just one examples but several.
There are layouts of what the various worship services look like in these different emerging churches which is also what makes this book so practical and helpful.
Something I also appreciated was the warning of not creating new consumers of worship, but to stress that worship is a lifestyle. Also that we need to be watching how much focus and money we spend on a worship service in balance with what else we do in our churches and spending money on the poor and needy. I don't think I have ever read a book on worship that challenges to do this. | | | | excellent, practical, inspiring Feb 20, 2006 |
| very thoughtprovoking on how worship is to be seen for the emerging culture, I have read most of the chapters more than once to get the most out of the book | | | | Stresses worship as a lifestyle, not an event Oct 1, 2005 |
I provide guitar music for a small Emergent Worship gathering (i.e. startup church). I am relatively new to the Emergent Church movement so I wanted something to help me understand its nature, especially as it relates to worship planning and music making. My pastor, who was also reading this book at the time, recommended it to me. I am glad he did.
Kimball helped me understand that Emerging Worship is about a lifestyle of seeking to honor God. While it is not hostile towards the traditional church model, it does seek to differentiate itself. The differentiation is not just a marketing ploy as some might initially suspect. Rather, Kimball explains the consistency of Emerging Worship as God centered, Christ honoring and biblically based. My initial concerns about theological compromise have been put to rest. I am now persuaded that a proper Emergent church is actually more concerned about majoring on the majors of biblical living than most churches.
Practices and music handed down through centuries of church tradition are not casually discarded, but are prayerfully reviewed for relevance in today's culture. Music can be rearranged without losing its initial meaning. The order of a meeting can be adjusted, perhaps radically. We don't need to have a superstar entertain us like clockwork each week to worship God. New songs can be written, it's okay; this is all biblical as long as it worships Him in Spirit and in Truth. Most of our long held modernistic traditions are not as sacred as we think. Many do not appear in the Bible in any form. The world is leaving modernism behind; so must we.
Our generation is called to be missionaries to postmodern people. Much like missionaries in foreign lands, we too must have some understanding of the philosophies and passions of those around us, especially post baby-boomers who think significantly different than previous generations. Understanding what's important to them is not an endorsement of all of it nor is it any compromise of the Gospel. Just as with church traditions, every element of post-modernity should be subjected to the light of God's Word and discernment from His Spirit so we can be salt and light for all people.
What all this means in practice is that Emerging Worship meetings may take various forms and include non-traditional elements such as improvised art, individual prayer and meditation stations, and especially moving the focus away from specific individuals (i.e. the church as a performance mindset). The church is not a drive-through meant to serve the customers who come by on Sunday. The church is the people comprising the servant body of Christ and the worship gathering is however they corporately meet to express their love toward God. Innovative ideas are encouraged as long as they do not violate any precept of Scripture. In fact, this approach is more in keeping with ancient church practices than most church services today. Read all of Acts 15, how does verse 28 apply today?
The book is structured so the first half explains the need for Emerging Worship in lay terms while still doing a respectable job of handling some theological or at least ministerial questions. This first half is not just theoretical. I really like how Kimball's heart (humility and love) for others comes through again and again. In fact most of it deals with very practical questions like knowing how and what effect an Emerging Worship gathering might have in your community of believers (local church). Steps to start the gathering, the importance of prayer, and critical questions are explored.
The second half of the book is unique because it describes the structure of several thriving Emergent churches down to the order of a typical (and some not-so-typical) meeting for worship. The types of groups covered vary widely from house churches, to Emergent gatherings integrated into larger traditional churches and stand alone Emergent gatherings. This section is interesting to read for a while, but is probably better suited as a reference for an actual implementation. The first half of the book is really the meat I was looking for, though I found some good ideas in the second section (having musicians seated to the side or back of a room so they don't compete for the focus on Jesus, for example).
I like the book and recommend it if you have any interest (positive or negative) in the Emerging Church movement. Emerging Worship, as Kimball explains it, is Christ honoring and I am thrilled to be in an early stage of what will probably become the dominant church gathering model in the decades to come.
May God bless you in whatever form of worship you have to truly honor Him who is worthy of all praise.
| | |  | IMPORTANT REVIEW Sep 1, 2005 |
| If you are short on time and happen to be short on patience as well, write the author of the book and demand an abridged version. It seems he had a mandatory work count he had to hit, because he overstated things. Alot. And then he did it again. Alot. Get my point. He used the phrases "emerging generations" and "holistic worship" a couple hundred times. (That's a tad annoying) Not only that, the book really seemed to stray from what i thought it was going to be, a book about creating worsip gatherings. If you want to read a book about how worship gaterhings were intended to be try the New Testament. | | | Write your own review about Emerging Worship
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