The Complete Contemporary Worship Handbook: How to Build and Sustain Meaningful Worship in Modern Denominational Churches - Softcover

Russell, Brian T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880292068 ISBN 13: 9781880292068

Verlag: LANGMARC PUB, 2016

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Brian Russell writes from real experience with Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist and Catholic churches with real challenges and, thankfully, real success stories.

How can we design worship that touches all of our people when stylistic and musical preferences vary so much from one person to another? Worship can at times struggle to find its identity and vitality as congregations wrestle with declining membership, concerns about finances, and changing cultural attitudes about the role of churches in neighborhoods and communities.

Russell offers to congregations whose worship is thriving and to congregations who seek worship renewal wisdom for designing meaningful contemporary services that enliven worshipers' encounters with God. Well-researched and accessible to a range of worshipers and worship leaders, this book invites readers to lean in and listen with generous and curious ears to the lively soundscapes of Christian worship today. He writes in a conversational way about what he has learned from his diverse experiences as worship designer and leader.

Leading readers through topics ranging from historical and theological topographies of worship to the nuts and bolts of bulletins and budgets, microphones and sound systems, Russell achieves his dual goals of helping worship leaders to explore contemporary worship on "macro and micro levels" and providing congregations with a "catalyst" to start substantive and much-needed conversations about worship.

Russell has found a way to organize in handbook form what worship leaders too often carry in their hearts, minds, and bodies as tacit knowledge. He offers his tacit knowledge as practical and theological wisdom.

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Brian is currently serving as Director of Contemporary Worship and Creative Arts a large Methodist church in North Carolina. He is also the Director of the Arts Alive Art Academy. Brian's tenure in leading contemporary worship spans two decades in a variety of denominational settings including Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Moravian, AME Zion, United Methodist and nondenominational churches. A graduate of Belmont Abbey College with a major in sociology, Brian completed his Master of Divinity from Wake Forest University, where he also earned the Graduate Certificate in Spirituality and Health awarded by the School of Divinity and the School of Medicine. Brian is a founding member of Salvage Garden - a 501(c)(3) organization commissioned to serve the spiritual growth of persons with exceptional challenges. In 2014, Brian began working as a consultant with churches that are making efforts to start or reinvent contemporary worship.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: LANGMARC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1880292068
• ISBN 13: 9781880292068
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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