There is an inherent dramatic element in almost all worship services. This is because Christian worship re-presents the story of the gospel through words and actions. Think of the Lord’s Supper and baptism. As Todd Johnson and Dale Savidge observe in their book Performing the Sacred, “Both involve participation, role-playing, symbolism and reenactment of historical [...]
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13 Sep
Creating Space
What does it mean to create common space as a community? This is something that we learned a lot about from Armonia. But it was also something that we had been thinking about prior to going as well, so I think we were ripe for the learning. How does a church create its space, use [...]
12 Aug
DBQ: Crying out for the Afflicted
In many of our contemporary praise songs, we sing about ourselves and our own relationship with God. But several times in the Psalms, we observe the Psalmist writing songs about others, particularly about the poor, oppressed, and afflicted. In Psalm 10, his prayer and song is for God to rise up and fight for the [...]
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