Welcome! If you have been invited to edit this blog, it means you are considered part of our worship preparation team. If you have not been invited to edit this blog but you would like to be a part of setting the table for worship each week, please let us know by commenting on this post!
The worship action of the week is not necessarily something we are "supposed" to implement in our actual worship services; it's just a reminder that Biblical worship is more than just singing, and it's intended as a reminder to us to reach beyond the standard order of service.
As we are preparing worship services, please edit the content of the blog posts. After a service has taken place, please use comments to review the service.
Our Sunday morning Reason Together service has somewhat by default followed the pattern of Living Water, but with less variation in content (as Living Water had already become less varied). The pattern has been:
1. Prepare to hear from God. (typically viewed as everything up to the sermon)
2. (Hopefully) hear from God. (typically viewed as the sermon)
3. Respond to God. (typically musically)
This pattern, especially when we have invested more into exploring different ways to fill it out, has served us well, but we can certainly reexamine it as the need arises.
We have a different pattern in mind for the Saturday worship service (called Outcry), similar to the pattern for the breakthrough event segments:
1. Cry out to God. (planned through music)
2. Listen to Scripture. (short sermon)
3. Pray in small groups.
4. Exalt God. (planned through music)
Surely as we use this blog as a worship planning tool, we will discover advantages and disadvantages compared to meeting face to face. Please remember that your idea doesn't have to be fully formed to post it. Sometimes as God's Spirit works among us, your idea plus someone else's idea, plus someone else's tweak, minus someone else's deletion, plus someone else's twist becomes the perfect element to help usher people into the worship of God!
Thank you for your passion for worship!
Tentative targets for service prep:
5 weeks out: Scripture reference and topic/title
4 weeks out: Scripture and one-sentence summary (subject to change, of course, upon study)
3 weeks out: Basic outline
2 weeks out: Outline fleshed out, other service elements selected
1 week out: Further finetuning
No comments:
Post a Comment