11 February 2008

We’re not singing anymore… or are we? Exploring worship and the emerging church… at Jason Clark

Taking the title from a well-known chant from football terraces , : Jason Clark asks some helpful questions about sung worship and manages to be reasonably balanced about the way he answers. definitely worth looking at .We’re not singing anymore… or are we? Exploring worship and the emerging church… at Jason Clark. I liked the emphasis on corporate worship as spiritual formation and the sadly uncommon recognition of sung worship as liturgy.
"One of the primary ways that Christians learn about God is not through the preaching but through the singing - the repetition of songs becoming a sung liturgy where the words can bypass our brain at times and yet form deep impressions in us as to who God is/what God is like - they teach us and we learn even when we don’t realise that we are being formed."
This is part of the impetus behind my stalled writing project on culture-jamming worship.

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