This book and CD-Rom package offers worship resources which aim to help spark and renew imagination and creativity in the church's worship and engage with contemporary culture and the arts. It contains liturgies, meditations, prayers, creative ideas, visuals, music and rituals for major festivals and feast days in the church year - Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Harvest and Advent.
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Jonny Baker was until recently Director of Youth for Christ in London and now works as National Youth Co-ordinator in the UK for Church Mission Society. He is part of the leadership of Grace, a congregation in London that uses alternative worship styles, and has led worship in churches and festivals across the UK. In addition, he is director of Proost records, an independent record label, on which he has been involved in recording several alternative worship albums, notably Grace, Eucharist and Labyrinth. Doug Gay is a founder member of Glasgow's pioneering Late, Late Service, has served on the Church of Scotland's Panel on Worship and lectured on alternative worship and post-modern homiletics at Trinity College, Bristol. He is an ordained minister in the United Reformed Church and currently lives in Galloway.
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56 of 60 people found the following review helpful
By Brian Draper
Format:Paperback
Alternative worship has been around the block a few times by now - thrust into our imaginations by the pioneering Nine O'Clock Service in Sheffield, wrestled with by angst-ridden post-Christians, written off by church leaders who should have known better...
But times are changing. Hell, even the Evangelical Alliance is urging churches to make the Noughties a 'decade of experimentation' (as opposed to the disastrous decade of evangelism). Normal, everyday Christians are looking for something different from their worship - something (whisper it!) perhaps more authentically human.
And at the same time, 'alt.worship' feels a little more sure of itself - the protagonists, thankfully, seem less inclined to think they've failed if they become successful. (Although the day alt.worship goes fully mainstream will probably be the time for most of these pioneers to scurry off to find the new borders of our culture...)
So let's enjoy these times of greater openness and curiosity. The likes of Jonny Baker and Doug Gay have been a lifeline to many over the years who have wanted to believe and belong but who couldn't bring themselves to behave in the ways of the dwindling church.
This book brings together a collection of 'alternative' worship ideas from a wide range of groups who are trying things out, experimenting with images and words, playing with liturgy... but who are deadly serious about making their worship more culturally relevant, more authentic to those who want to go deeper than the shallow Christian subculture can offer.
The authors helpfully introduce the collection by placing alt.worship in its historical and cultural context. And there are plenty of practical examples for you to try - and to learn from. After all, as Baker and Gay point out, this is no blue-print, but a collection that should inspire individuals, small groups and churches to dream new dreams of creativity for themselves - within their own, local settings.
The CD Rom is packed full of inspiring images, video footage and words. 'Alternative Worship' will be a great start for anyone wanting to try new things; and it will be a great encouragement to those who have been modelling faithfully an alternative for what seems like forever.
Buy it, and then dream on...
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This book is really helpful in the preparation of worship services. Giving some great different reading, prayers etc.
The CD is useful - but rather hard to find your way around.
The CD is useful - but rather hard to find your way around.
3 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a courageous attempt to modernise worship in the post-modern era. This may be of some use to encourage people wishing to praise Christ Jesus as church attendance declines in the West. Bringing secular methods into worship is interesting although not all will approve. Baker's effort is indeed worth a read however some careful consideration to separate wheat from chaff might be advisable for some clergymen but hopefully it might help inject some life and vitality with it's insightful ideas. If a congregation wants to try to fill the pews in these testing times this book might well help those on their mission. The CD is Good too.
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