how to embody worship?
Ferdandos desk has linked up the Geoff Bullock song rewrites with some interesting reflections. These are reflections from someone who was a part of the Church Geoff went to after he left Hillsongs:
In the end we always have to embody worship (or do something with our bodies while we worship), which brings us back to a question not just about words, but about architecture. Whether we worship in a sucess-driven megachurch, or a relationally-focussed emerging church, or any of the myriad options inbetween, we are faced with decisions about how we organise our space and those may often have more impact on our theology than we might assume. In fact, I would suggest that maybe our worship influences our ideas about faith more than the other way round. Cathedrals focus us on glory and unchageability, multipurpose halls on practicality and liunge rooms on relationality and the everyday. Sure all these originally arose from an idea, but for those who first experience faith (or renewed faith) through them, they become part of the message itself.
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August 31st, 2005 at 7:34 am
I have been saying that for years, just not so eloquently, very good perception.
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