What makes for a successful worship service? In this book, the authors consider variables that make a worship service successful or unsuccessful. They explore how moods, settings and procedures can effect the worship experience, despite the purpose for worship's true aim: "a heartfelt celebration of God and His worthiness."
Introduction to Christian Worship is a balanced and comprehensive survey of worship in the various Christian churches. It is gradually being realized that one of the most useful means of studying any religion is by examining its worshiping life where a religion's faith and practices are most dynamically expressed. This book can be used as a general introduction to Christianity as well as for a …
Old says that worship is best understood by means of several distinctive Biblical concepts which are tied together by the word doxology. Through a series of engaging vignettes--from the lamentations of Israel to the supplications of the Benedictine office--Old presents a rich profusion of worship variations that have developed out of the Biblical themes for a Christian doxology.