What Is The Real Problem With Today’s Evangelical Worship?
Are We Headed For A Crash? Reflections On The Current State of Evangelical Worship
This is a great article by Alex Medina on art and the biblical perspective that should drive us as Christ-following artists. It was posted on the Gospel Coalition website.
Mike Wittmer
a blog article
July 22, 2013
"...I doubt that most Christians noticed the problem because the song once mentions forgiveness and right before the end mentions the need for Jesus and the cross. But then again, so did Pelagius. This chorus is straight Dr. Phil, Oprah, and Chuck Finney. You would never hear it from Augustine, Luther, Calvin, or Jesus...."
Philip G. Ryken
"Many Christian artists live between two strange worlds. Their faith in Christ seems odd to many of their friends in the artistic community—almost as odd as their calling as artists seems to some of their friends at church. Yet Christians called to draw, paint, sculpt, sing, act, dance, and play music have extraordinary opportunities to honor God in their daily work and to bear witness to the grace, beauty, and truth of the gospel..."
First Things-Tragic Worship
by Carl R. Trueman
June/July 2013
"Tragedy as a form of art and of entertainment highlighted death, and death is central to true Christian worship."
"Perhaps it is ironic, but the church that confronts people with the reality of the shortness of life lived under the shadow of death prepares them for resurrection better than the church that goes straight to resurrection triumphalism without that awkward mortality bit."
by John MacArthur
Christian Research Journal 23/2
This article had a huge impact on me in my early stages of forming my philosophy of worship, and it can be credited for part of the motivation to title this blog--colossians316.com.
Sally Morgenthaler
author of Worship Evangelism
a great, simple article on rehearsal structure and planning your practices, etc.
originally posted at ccli.com/WorshipResources/Articles.cfm?itemID=22
found it posted here although layout is sloppy: click here
From Worship Matters
Bob Kauflin
http://www.worshipmatters.com/2006/01/25/what-does-a-worship-leader-do/
Quote taken from Donald Hustad's book, Jubilate II
p121- "Our more serious threat, it seams, is too much 'weak emotion' in church--emotion for its own sake (without relationship to cognitive understanding) or pseudo-emotion that is better called 'sentimentality'."