Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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c. Differences according to volume

d. Differences according to meanings of music

3. The “fight” is real and meaningful.

4. Not “either/or” but “both/and”

B. Why are blended worship approaches so important?

1. Variety is truly the spice of life, and the nature of God’s person and working.

2. To hear the Lord’s voice afresh: the case for contemporary

3. To remember the Lord’s work in our past: the case for traditional

C. One person’s garbage is another person’s wealth: the tyranny and phases of ethnocentrism (see Acts 10: Peter and the Jewish band’s reaction to Cornelius)

1. Phase one: Ours is preferred over theirs.

2. Phase two: Ours is better than theirs.

3. Phase three: Ours is right , theirs is somewhat iffy.

4. Phase four: Mine is God-ordained and superior , and everyone else’s is odd and wrong.

D. Blending: an affirmation of the importance of difference of expression and the holding of tradition in our worship experience in God. How do you blend?

1. In the songs you select

2. In the styles you play

3. In the instrumentation you select

4. In the vocal arrangements you choose