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A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the WorldFollowing up on her best selling Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, Marva Dawn offers biblically grounded, experience based insights to help churches navigate beyond today's destructive worship wars and to stimulate renewal in the worship and life of congregations. The first major section of the book examines the postmodern, media saturated, consumerist culture that makes worship difficult yet absolutely essential. The next section focuses on keeping
Following up on her best selling Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, Marva Dawn offers biblically grounded, experience-based insights to help churches navigate beyond today's destructive worship wars and to stimulate renewal in the worship and life of congregations. The first major section of the book examines the postmodern, media-saturated, consumerist culture that makes worship difficult yet absolutely essential. The next section focuses on keeping God at the center of worship. Other sections of the book explore issues of taste, forming faith in children, word choices, hospitality in worship, and the challenges of being church for the world. The book also includes nine Scripture-based sermons and questions for further discussion. In contrast to writers who advocate worship for utilitarian purposes, Dawn concentrates on worship's royal dimension, its God-ward focus. A Royal Waste of Time amplifies Dawn's earlier argument that churches need to wrangle seriously with the true purpose of worship in order to employ the tools and forms that best enfold participants in the splendor of worshiping God. Only worship filled with the splendor of God, Dawn writes, will lead to genuine adoration of God and faithful formation of his people.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 04/27/1999
ISBN: 9780802845863
Pages: 385
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.04w x 0.87d
Award: Book of the Year - Winner
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