Revitalizing Worship Articles
This collection of articles by Richard P. Matthews was originally published in CrossCurrents, a publication of New England Conference of the United Methodist Church in 2003.
- The Church in Crisis
- Declining membership, attendance, and children in church school
- A Foreigner in the House of God
- The need to speak the language of the younger generation
- Planning and Preparing the Revitalized Worship Service: Phase One
- How to tailor the service to meet the spiritual needs of the community
- Planning and Preparing the Revitalized Worship Service: Phase Two
- Objectively interpreting demographic data
- Planning and Preparing the Revitalized Worship Service: Phase Three
- Selling the vision to the church membership
- Media and Lighting in Revitalized Worship
- Experiencing the right-brain and seeing things visually
- Word Images as Prayers and Scripture
- Rediscovering the “oral tradition” and how it will work in our right-brain culture
- Logos and the Art of Story Telling
- Writing the Message into contemporary secular parables for today
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