This morning, I am still catching up on emails that came in during my vacation...mostly deleting the promotional emails because I am so far behind and I just don't have the time...
Over one email, I hesitated as my finger headed for the delete button. The email in question was from The Work of The People.com. I learned about Work for the People from Marcia McFee at last year's School of Congregational Development and like their image-based, provocative worship videos. I decided to check out the FREE interview with Leadership guru Sally Morgenthaler.
In the clip, Sally comments on the resistant to change in many existing churches, the leaders' challenges, and critiques the worship in traditional, missional and emerging churches--stating that worship must drive spiritual formation for the congregation. She critiques our expectations of church--if we are creating places of comfort and escape, rather than communities of grace and transformation, we aren't offering the Gospel of Jesus Christ! She quotes Will Willimon, Walter Brueggemann and discussess te churches need to rediscover the Ancient Church worship and lamentations if we are authentic in our attempts to reach people outside the churches doorsteps-- if we want to be relevant and offer real hope in people's lives.
Enjoy it or Not--I hope to hear from you! Sue
Visit: http://www.theworkofthepeople.com/index.php?ct=store.details&pid=V00778
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