Session Description
Biblical text is central to Christian worship gatherings. Generally, the most significant piece of scripture is the focus of the sermon or the message, and worship planners are happy when they can match that theme in other parts of the worship gathering. What if, however, we invited the text with its various parts and movements to shape the whole of our service more concretely rather than have it be packaged as the teaching contained in a sermon? What if we adopted the movements within a psalm as the separate movements of our worship gathering and we enacted the psalm together? This workshop (for pastors, worship planners, musicians and brainstormers) will walk through several sample services before we brainstorm together.
Conference Title
2017 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-27-2017
Event Type
Workshop/Seminar
Type (recording/text)
Text
Subject Area
Homiletics
Topic
Worship Planning
Keywords:
Theme, Psalm, Planning
Recommended Citation
DeVries, Joan, "Inviting the Text to Direct the Service" (2017). Symposium on Worship Archive. 27.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2017/allitems/27
Inviting the Text to Direct the Service
Biblical text is central to Christian worship gatherings. Generally, the most significant piece of scripture is the focus of the sermon or the message, and worship planners are happy when they can match that theme in other parts of the worship gathering. What if, however, we invited the text with its various parts and movements to shape the whole of our service more concretely rather than have it be packaged as the teaching contained in a sermon? What if we adopted the movements within a psalm as the separate movements of our worship gathering and we enacted the psalm together? This workshop (for pastors, worship planners, musicians and brainstormers) will walk through several sample services before we brainstorm together.