Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Worship

  • THE IMPULSE TO EXPLAIN

    Seeker Services In 1975, Bill Hybels, a Chicago youth pastor with roots in the Christian Reformed Church, started a movement to bring new people into the church. He proposed a style of service stripped of anything that might put unchurched people off: no crosses on the walls, no old hymns, not much scripture. A message…

  • Retrieving Worship

    Retrieving worship. Mostly when worship comes up in places like this blog, it’s the style of worship that’s on hand: worship wars, as they were once known. Where I lived, in the Christian Reformed Church, the wars were mostly about songs. Should one sing exclusively or, at least, mostly from hymnals? Or should the church…