For Meyers, the term "missional worship" is about patterns of
worship as a form of participation in the mission of God, while "worshipful mission" is participation in God's mission in the world (p.
Ruth A. Meyers, Missional Worship, Worshipful Mission: Gathering as God's People Going Out in God's Name
Sacramental Politics: Religious Worship as Political Action
There are seven chapters: religious worship as political rhetoric?; religious worship as partisan politics; religious worship as public policy promotion; religious worship as political messaging; religious worship as political space; religious worship as inherent political action; religious worship as politics.
Sacramental Politics: Religious Worship as Political Action
Instead, contemplative worshipers see stillness in
worship as stillness in our spirits.
Becoming contemplative worshipers: attending to our communal heart
The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer portrays the BCP and Anglican public worship as very much works in progress.
It and the new Oxford book follow a similar pattern-essays by eminent liturgical scholars outlining Anglican worship as it was and is becoming.
BCP: a finished product or a work in progress?
There was a time when we did not have the liberty to gather in Baptist churches and to worship as we felt led by God.
We celebrate the fact that we are free to worship as we feel led by God and that we are not under the control of the government or any other authority.
Remember that you were slaves Deuteronomy 5:15, 15:15, 16:12, 24:18, 22: winning sermon in the 2005 Baptist heritage preaching contest: when we celebrate the Fourth of July, we are reminding ourselves as Americans that we have not always been free
Of course, many other states officially recognize houses of
worship as being historic landmarks.
Mission impossible: U.S. Constitution does not allow government to give 'faith-based' funding to catholic churches in California, says Americans United lawsuit
Yet there is a troubling disconnect between mind/spirit and epidermis in much traditional unprogrammed worship, a disconnect that often results in a casual dismissal of the ritual practice of other traditions as "mere" or "dead." What Augustine called "visible words"--the sacraments--are ordinarily rejected as "unnecessary," frivolous, or, in some cases, "impediments to faith." (5) Barclay speaks of worship as "being gathered from all visibles." (6) Color and texture, celebration and ceremony are painted over with a dull gray.
When liturgy is understood as more than simply the words or "mere ritual" but as a corporate practice of (re)enactment, (in)bodying, and (re)membering the community's formative story, then some attention must be given to worship as a kind of performance.
Sometimes you just gotta dance: Physical expressiveness in worship
(27) Contemporary religious conservatives might well have seen Reformed
worship as a damnably cheapened mockery of the holiness of God, even as Protestants accused Catholics of superstition, deliberate ignorance, and blind subservience to fraudulent tradition.
"Fiery toungues:" Language, liturgy, and the paradox of the English Reformation
This enables one to see
worship as part of the living encounter among Christians from various traditions.
Praise the Lord with the lyre ... and the gamelan? Towards koinonia in worship
The book's thesis, that God acts in worship to transform church and world, is sustained by the metaphor of
worship as a mighty river where God carries out Gods mission, "hike a river flowing to the sea, God's work of reconciliation, recorded in Scripture and accomplished in Christ, continues in the church's worship and through worship overflows into the world" (5).
When God Speaks through Worship
The Christian Coalition, TV preacher Pat Robertson's ultra-conservative political group, is making an aggressive move into houses of
worship as part of a new, church-based strategy.
Churches, politics and the IRS: what every pastor should know about federal tax law, electioneering and houses of worship