The Thin Edge has a reflection on how much our church services rely on technology:

This past Sunday in Wales, a group of elders gathered at their church building to pray. The ancient stone chapel had been without heating since a group of construction workers shut off the gas supply to the building earlier in the [...]

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Great little reflection from Nadia Bolz-Weber of the God’s Politics Blog about worshiping in a prison:
I’m always a bit anxious in new worship environments. As I settle into my plastic chair at New Beginnings Lutheran Church, I realize that now is certainly no different. At least, I think to myself, my cell phone won’t go [...]

Thanks to Thoughts of a Worshipper for pointing this list of Saddleback Church’s 12 Convictions about Worship (read the original articles with more commentary from Pastors.com here and here:

1. Only believers can truly worship God
2. You don’t need a building to worship God.
3. There is no correct style of worship.
4. While unbelievers can’t worship, they [...]

There’s a great series of posts underway at Church Marketing Sucks looking at church from a visitor’s perspective (link goes to the first post in the series). Definitely a worthwhile reminder that if you’ve been going to church for years, you may have forgotten what it’s like to visit a church for the first time, [...]

De at the Thinklings blog has a good post about that most popular of church pasttimes: bashing modern praise music. The next time you’re tempted to roll your eyes and critique a praise song that you think is shallow or meaningless, try setting your critiques aside for a moment and just focusing on worship. Obviously, [...]

Last week I had the privilege of attending the Creative Infusion Conference at Daybreak church in west Michigan. Any other readers happen to make it there? It was two days of music, worship, and workshops, all focused around the themes of creativity and worship. The most obvious target audience was pastors and worship leaders, but [...]

Well said…well said…

Are we conveying the wrong impressions about Christianity to outsiders?

I haven’t laughed this hard in a while.
Saw a video recently, created by Minus Media for the 2006 Purpose Driven Worship Conference + Festival that just happened at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church.
Check it out for yourself…
A wonderful send-up of typically bad Christian white rap in the 90s…