Musical Variety & Breadth

This is the seventh column in a series I’m writing to describe our goals and values for corporate worship. If you’ve not noticed by now, let me point out how these explanations are structured. Each value discussion begins with a series of “we believe” statements,...

Cultural Sensitivity

I’ve been writing an extended series of columns describing our goals and values for corporate worship. So far, I’ve said that we want our worship gatherings to be God-centered, cross-centered, and Scripture-saturated. Two weeks ago, I wrote about congregational...

Congregational Participation

What are the values that unite us in our corporate worship? For what are we aiming when we gather together on Sunday morning? For the last several weeks, I’ve been answering these questions, one value at a time. So far, I’ve explained that we want our worship...

Cross-centered Worship

What are the values that unite us in corporate worship? And what are we aiming for when we gather together on Sunday morning? Last week I described the primary value that unites us on Sunday and every day—namely, we want our worship gatherings to be deliberately and...