We had a challenging question posed by Nick Woodburn from Bedford UK where he asks us to describe the defining characteristics of contemporary worship music. Here is Nick’s preamble to his question.
“I have a question, loosely connected to the guest blog by Kim Gentes, titled “Has modern worship become corrupt?”
I could relate very easily to [...]
Have We Lost The Heart of Modern Worship, Are Things as Pure as They Once Where? or Has “Modern Worship” Become Corrupt?
In the early days of praise and worship growing up in the church, it was popular for “defenders of the faith” (those who preferred the established style of music at the time) to attack [...]
This clip from DJ Chris Moyles on his Breakfast Radio Show is so encouraging to hear. It shows that people with no personal experience of church can find a contemporary worship service surprisingly relevant to (post) modern culture. In the UK at least, a whole generation has little understanding of church other than traditional weddings and carol services. [...]
More from our series on church and worship. Some musings on what it really means to come to a service “prepared”.
(A) Arrive early
We encourage our team to come early to our Sunday gatherings to pray together for the gathering, to ask the Holy Spirit for a corporate infilling, and to get a feel for the [...]
Given the recent discussion on our post “Bored of contemporary worship” we wanted to start adding some posts that help us examine our theology in relation to worship and church. Musicademy’s approach to DVD training has always been essentially practical and we want to bring some of that practicality to the discussion on worship theology.
Over [...]
