Engaging Worship
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Engaging Worship: 20 Blueprints for Experiential Church Services [Paperback]
Group Publishing (Author)
Available at Amazon from £113.17 (yes that was the price it is currently selling for.... I nearly died of shock when I saw the price!)
ISBN 0-7644-2832-2
This 160 page book (not manual) provides "blueprints" for complete services. 20 varied themes are covered from "the spirit comes" to "the persecuted church". Each Blueprint has a summary of the experience and the type of mood that is to be created in the worship space. This is followed by a running order for the evening with scripted talk and details of how to set up the experiential worship activities and song suggestions. Accompanying the book is a CD - ROM with sound effects, power point slides and PDF's.
I borrowed this book from Dave as we are developing a youth service that has experiential worship within it and I thought this book would be a good resource it is packed full...but a lot of which I would not use as it is very prescriptive. I personally found the tone and content a little culturally removed from where we are. Some of the blueprints are so full of "experience" if the leader used all the suggestions the congregation would go home with "experience" indigestion!
This is the kind of book I could have on the shelf to flick through for starter ideas, I wouldn't use it as intended.
Value to me as a resource 2/5,
Would suggest you borrow Dave's copy rather than buy your own!
Review by Clare Townsend, Youth & Children's Worker at St Paul's Church, Letchworth
Short links
http://www.albandys.org.uk/go/engaging_worship
http://www.albandys.org.uk/go/389