A Worship Workbook: A Practical Guide for Extraordinary Liturgy

by Gerald C Liu, Khalia J Williams

Overview

Pastors and others who lead Christian worship want to offer worship that is truthful and hopeful. They yearn to create worship that involves and includes everyone in their midst. To develop new approaches to planning, so that their worship can reflect and respond to the realities of the community. To create worship for the church that is becoming. A Worship Workbook introduces crucial and under-examined liturgical and social concepts for students and leaders of worship. Each chapter offers a brief lesson, teaching new skills and inspiring creativity for honest, faithful, and versatile worship leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501896569
Publisher:	Abingdon Press
Publication date:	03/16/2021
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gerald C. Liu is Assistant Professor of Worship and Preaching at Princeton Theological School. An ordained United Methodist Elder of the Mississippi Annual Conference, he also serves as a Minister in Residence at the Church of the Village, a United Methodist Congregation in Manhattan. He is the son of culturally Buddhist immigrants from Taiwan, and is the author of Music and the Generosity of God (Palgrave, 2017).

Khalia J. Williams is the Assistant Dean of Worship and Music, and Assistant Professor in the Practice of Worship at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. An ordained minister, she serves as an associate minister and First Lady at the historic Providence Missionary Baptist church in Atlanta. With a deep passion for the intersection of worship, womanist theology and embodiment, she is a lead consultant for multiple denominations in the area of liturgical transformation.

Table of Contents

Foreword Lauren Winner vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The Work of the People 1

Part 1 Widening Our Worship Imagination

Chapter 1 What Makes for Good Worship? 7

Chapter 2 The Mystery of Our Jewish Roots 13

Chapter 3 Liturgical Time 17

Chapter 4 Tradition 21

Chapter 5 The Inscrutable Preference for Two Patterns 23

Chapter 6 Scripture 27

Chapter 7 Other Sacred Texts 29

Chapter 8 Interreligious Dialogue 31

Chapter 9 The Sacraments-Baptism 37

Chapter 10 The Sacraments-Eucharist 41

Chapter 11 Preaching 45

Chapter 12 Languages of Liturgy and Worship 49

Chapter 13 Weddings 53

Chapter 14 Funerals 57

Chapter 15 Other Occasional Services 61

Chapter 16 Sacred Space 65

Chapter 17 Ecology and Worship Leah D. Schade 69

Part 2 Deepening the Work of the People

Chapter 18 Embodiment in Worship 75

Chapter 19 Enclave Worship and Christ's Call for Unity 79

Chapter 20 Worship and Disability Rebecca F. Spurrier 83

Chapter 21 Worship, Gender, and Sexuality Stephanie A. Budwey 87

Chapter 22 Latinx Wisdom for Wholistic Worship Lis Valle-Ruiz 91

Chapter 23 Worship and Whiteness Andrew Wymer 95

Chapter 24 Intercultural Worship Safwat Marzouk 99

Chapter 25 The Call for African American Worship 103

Chapter 26 Asian American Considerations 107

Chapter 27 Intergenerational Church Today and Tomorrow 113

Chapter 28 Chaplaincy: Reimagining Hospital Rituals in the Context of COVID-19 Emily Lueder 117

Chapter 29 Imbuing Liturgical Awe 121

Chapter 30 Identifying Congregational and Community Gifts for Worship 125

Chapter 31 Planning Together 129

Chapter 32 Identifying Congregational Resistance to Worship 135

Chapter 33 The Arts 139

Chapter 34 Music 143

Chapter 35 Going Solo 149

Chapter 36 Relevance as a Crucial Question 153

Chapter 37 Who Are the People? 157

Chapter 38 A Chance to Start Church Over 159

Chapter 39 How Then Shall We Gather? Pastor Reflections on Virtual Worship Chris Jorgensen 165

Conclusion: Revelation 169

Notes 171

Bibliography 185