Tag: worship
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Church is not Worship, Community, or Mission. It’s All Three
Rachel Young has a thoughtful article at the The Presbyterian Outlook's Outpost blog titled, Consumers, missionaries, or worshipers? She writes: … We use the language of buying and selling, of efficiency, of getting the best product for the best price, even as we think about our relationships, our work, our leisure, our church. We are…
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Worship, Websites, Conflict Affect Growth in Congregations
I linked an article on Wednesday from the Christian Science Monitor called From US churches that are growing, a sound of drums that generated some discussion. Yesterday, Denis Hanock (Reformed Angler) did some surfing and found the report on which the article was based called Worship, Websites, Conflict Affect Growth in Congregations. It was published…
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‘Shake it out for Jesus’: Churches co-opt hip-hop
'Shake it out for Jesus': Churches co-opt hip-hop. According to this article, even Lutherans are discovering hip-hop. I haven't been to a hip-hop "church" service, but I have been to youth camp services that were hip-hop. The article mentions a book being released by Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson called The Hip-hop Church: Connecting With…