Session Description
We hope that the Symposium has some of the same flavor of joy that the Israelites experienced when they came up to Jerusalem each year for their annual festivals. They came from different tribes, and eventually from different lands and tongues (like the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8). God has drawn us together here also to offer our worship in ways that celebrate the diversity of the children of God in our churches and communities. And so we will all be stretched beyond our familiar surroundings of worshiping communities large and small, some of whom have moved in one direction or another with respect to hospitality, music, visual arts, and technology.
One of the main goals of this conference is to be encouraged by what God is doing in congregations across North America and beyond, and to learn to ask helpful questions about our own worship practices that focus our attention on the deep meaning and purpose of worship. We expect that we will also learn something more about how to pray with greater understanding for those in our own communities and across the world where hunger, violence, and war bring so much suffering. And so we hope this conference is both practical and inspiring, both affirming and challenging.
Conference Title
2005 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-27-2005
Type (recording/text)
Text
Keywords:
program
Recommended Citation
"Program - Calvin Symposium on Worship: Word, Image, Music, Action" (2005). Symposium on Worship Archive. 8.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2005/allitems/8
Included in
Program - Calvin Symposium on Worship: Word, Image, Music, Action
We hope that the Symposium has some of the same flavor of joy that the Israelites experienced when they came up to Jerusalem each year for their annual festivals. They came from different tribes, and eventually from different lands and tongues (like the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8). God has drawn us together here also to offer our worship in ways that celebrate the diversity of the children of God in our churches and communities. And so we will all be stretched beyond our familiar surroundings of worshiping communities large and small, some of whom have moved in one direction or another with respect to hospitality, music, visual arts, and technology.
One of the main goals of this conference is to be encouraged by what God is doing in congregations across North America and beyond, and to learn to ask helpful questions about our own worship practices that focus our attention on the deep meaning and purpose of worship. We expect that we will also learn something more about how to pray with greater understanding for those in our own communities and across the world where hunger, violence, and war bring so much suffering. And so we hope this conference is both practical and inspiring, both affirming and challenging.