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Want an Intergenerational Church? Drive Defensively!
Older generations are probably not as averse to changes in the practices of their church as much as they are to feeling marginalized through those changes. It seems to them that their opinions are no longer needed, and their convictions are discounted as antiquated.
I can imagine that some view those changes that are made without ever considering them as something that separates wha
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Veronica Stone is a great story teller. Her accounts in How to Stay and Not Flee chronicling the first decade with her family serving as missionaries in a country across the globe will have you laughing and crying from one sentence to the next. For t
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“Comparing our worship to the worship of another congregation means we are trying to measure up to a standard God has called them to, not the one God has called us to.”
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
“No matter how large or small, every church should be developing distinctly and becoming uniquely the congregation God has called them to be. Loving the Lord with heart, soul, mind, and strength and loving our neighbor as we love ourselves are never contingent on congregational size or abilities.”
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
“Senior adults are probably not as averse to worship change as they are to feeling marginalized through those changes. It seems to them that their opinions are no longer needed or considered and their convictions are discounted as antiquated. I can imagine that some seniors view change as something that separates what was from what will be. It appears that the price paid through their years of blood, sweat, tears, and tithes is now being used to build a wall that will sideline or keep them out completely.”
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
“A balanced approach to worship evaluation can be summative in that a congregation can learn from its previous worship failures and successes. But it can also be formative since it occurs during the development and conceptual worship service stages.”
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
“When an intentional and collaborative process of weekly worship evaluation is implemented, the reality is that you as leaders will no longer receive all of the credit for worship successes. But fortunately, you won’t receive all of the credit for worship failures either.”
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
“If we never involve our congregants as more than casual bystanders while we read, speak, sing, play, pray, testify, lead, mediate, commune, baptize, con- fess, thank, petition, and exhort, then how can we expect them to transform from passive spectators to active participators? Aren’t we really creating worship tourists who select their destination based solely on their impression of the platform tour guide and excursion offered rather than worship travelers on a continuous journey?”
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
“Participative worship is intentionally collaborative and is not guarded, territorial, or defensive. It trusts the creative abilities and resources of the whole in the planning, preparation, and implementation. Consequently, participatory leaders are not threatened when someone else gets their way or gets the credit. Participatory worship is a culture, not a one-time event.”
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
“If churches want great worship leaders in the future, they must invest in not-yet-great worship leaders in the present.”
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
― Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship
