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This is just bizarre...
YOU ARE MANDRAKE
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What did everyone else get?
Many of you will be familiar with Zondervan's Counterpoints series. The format for each volume involves a range of people (each with a different opinion) writing on a particular issue. Then each contributor writes a response to each other contributor. (It strikes me as a fairly post-modern concept – I think this, you think that, and there's no way to tell who is right...)
Anyway, the latest book in this series is Exploring the Worship Spectrum, and it can't shake off this subjectivity either. All the contributors seem to agree that the style of corporate worship is merely a matter of personal preference. So one could summarise the book as follows:
Paul Zahl: I like liturgy.
Harold Best: I like hymns.
Joe Horness: I like being contemporary.
Don Williams: I like being charismatic.
Robert Webber: I like all sorts of things.
Sally Morgenthaler: I like being different.
OK, I exaggerate a little. After all, the principles are far more important than the practice. And to their credit, most of the authors share a disapproval of pop worship. Maybe I'm just feeling sore because my preferred form of worship – Reformed Covenantal, shall we call it – is not represented. Webber comes quite close, though.
Morgenthaler's article is the most interesting – it's worth getting the books just to see what these “Emerging worship” types are up to. The vision she presents is that of “non-linear” worship, (my words, not hers), and it's full of fascinating ideas.
One more thing. What I have to say may offend some who regularly read this blog, but I think it must be said. I fear some Christians don't really believe in the Holy Spirit. They talk about him a lot, but don't really believe his sovereign power. And when I read about the necessity of 'freeing up the Spirit to act', I get a horrible feeling in my stomach...
This is just bizarre...
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