Contemporary Worship Conference

Just wrapping up my last minute thoughts, ideas and other prep work before tomorrow's workshop. The conference itself is geared toward helping traditional churches understand and implement elements of modern/missional/emerging worship.

I'm teaching two workshop tracks: "Sharing the Vision, Plan & Production for Modern Worship" and "Creating Worship Environments in Your Church." Both are "pastor tracks" aimed at helping pastors with the often difficult task of transitioning not just service elements, but entire church/community culture.

Throughout my prep, a couple of ideas continue to come back to me; I'm not even sure of their origin. Maybe snippets of a book I read, or some phrase spoken at another workshop that I attended. Can't remember. But they've stuck with me, in part due to the thoughts and questions that come to my mind, and also due to the truth they contain. So I 'll share them with you, and my apologies to the originator for forgetting who you are (but, chances are you have no idea who I am, either, so in some warped kind of way, I guess we're even.)

:: With each generation, the church renews language and patterns for worship ::

:: The Bible shapes our patterns and actions in worship, drawing us into God's saving story ::

Enjoy the weekend, come check out the conference and I'll share some notes, thoughts and more after it's all over.