Ancient Modern Worship: A Practical Guide to Blending Worship Styles - Softcover

Thielen, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0687031036 ISBN 13: 9780687031030

Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2000

Synopsis

Ancient–Modern Worship is a practical guide for planning blended worship services (worship that incorporates elements of both traditional and contemporary worship styles). Through the use of the metaphor "worship as drama", Martin Thielen demonstrates that the script of worship is similar to a five-act play, with the five acts or movements being: gathering, service of the word, response, service of the table, and dismissal.

Key Features: * Step-by-step guide and practical advice on adding contemporary worship elements to each act of the traditional worship service. * Offers historic perspectives on the use of various worships practices. * Includes suggested prayers, responses, and scripture readings; sample worship services and drama sketches; and a sample worship script. * Offers help on recruiting laity for participation in worship, adding visual impact in worship, and changing the existing order of worship.

Key Benefits: * Readers will discover new ways to make the worship experience more meaningful for the entire congregation. * Enables readers to respond more effectively to the needs of congregations with diverse worship tastes. * Facilitates the planning of worship services that allow congregations to experience worship through a variety of styles and practices.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Thielen is the author of the best-selling What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still Be a Christian? He writes columns for Ministry Matters.com, Circuit Rider, and Net Results and is Senior Pastor of Cookeville United Methodist Church in Cookeville, Tennessee.

Before coming to Cookeville, Martin served three other Middle Tennessee churches, including First United Methodist Church of Lebanon, Tennessee. During his decade-long tenure at Lebanon, the church experienced significant revitalization and growth. For details, read "How a Two-Hundred-Year-Old, Declining, Mainline Church Got Its Groove Back."

Before transferring to the United Methodist Church, Martin served as a pastor and denominational worker for the Southern Baptist Convention. He worked for four years as a national worship and preaching consultant and editor of Proclaim for the SBC. He has led more than one hundred church leadership workshops for ministers across the country. He also served as an adjunct professor of worship and preaching at a seminary.

Martin has a bachelor of arts, a master of divinity, and a doctor of ministry degree, along with a year of PhD coursework at Vanderbilt University. Writing for publication has long been an important part of Martin's ministry. He has written five books, four of them on the subject of worship and preaching, and more than one hundred articles. His doctor of ministry project was "Ministering to Ministers through Writing." For further information about Martin, especially his passion for vocational ministry, read "Baptizing Babies and Burying Old Folks." You can visit Martin's preaching and worship Web site at www.GettingReadyForSunday.com.

Martin and his wife Paula are the parents of two adult children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0687031036
• ISBN 13: 9780687031030
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144