Emerging Worship engages communities in the art of everyday life. Whether you are asked to start an alternative worship service, are exploring complimentary elements to deepen your existing worship offerings, or starting worship for a brand new church plant you need to start with “How does worship connect to what we believe about church?”. Of course you also need on-ramp methods to get started right away: tips for how to find and train musicians, artists, and poets; how to design the time and place, and maybe even some survival strategies for addressing the resistance you may encounter from within your congregation. We’ll hit those too. But this Emerging Worship webinar is about communities anticipating the dreams of God together by playfully sharing and trading narratives and rituals as prayer.

1. Emerging Worship

3. Why Emerging Worship

6. Church as a Noun

7. Church as a Verb

9. Nouns don’t move things... they just keep everything in neat categories. (Duncker’s Candle Problem)

10. “ Functional fixedness” occurs to life and worship when church is just a noun.

13. Q: How does your community “demonstrate” Easter hope for the whole world through its use of time, space, and matter?

22. Emerging Worship is when congregations image a new world through narratives and rituals, with prayerful intention using any/all time, space and matter at their disposal.

24. Do What? How do I start that?

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31. narrative story 2. ritual practice 3. prayer intention

32. Q: What is your community’s intention for worship?

33. Starting Worship Design: Whom do you have to work with low willingness high capacity courageous will capable designers low willingness low capacity high willingness low capacity