| Clergy & Lay Leadership: Church Musicians' Reading Group |
The purpose of the church musicians' reading group is to help church musicians explore themes of vocation and ministry through the reading and discussing of books related to worship and church music. This reading group is designed to provide intellectual stimulation and personal enrichment by engaging in significant conversation regarding the nature and purpose of worship and the role of music in Christian worship.
Fall 2004 - Spring 2005
In September 2004, the church musicians' reading group read Engaging With God: A Biblical Theology of Worship by David Peterson.
Worship is of immense concern in the church and ironically the source of controversy and dispute. Can we get behind the question of what style of worship we should engage in to understand the bedrock foundation for God's people--honoring God as God desires? Is the dissatisfaction with worship voiced by so many perhaps a result of our having wandered from biblical teaching on the subject?
Through careful exegesis in both Old and New Testaments, David Peterson unveils the total life-orientation of worship that is found in Scripture. Rather than determining for ourselves how we should worship, we, God's people, are called to engage with God on the terms he proposes and in the way God alone makes possible.
This book calls for a radical rethinking of the meaning and practice of worship, especially by those responsible for leading congregations. Here is the starting place for recovering the richness of biblical worship.
"The author cuts back through the undergrowth of our inherited traditions to the clarity and straightforwardness of the biblical teaching. . . . Despite the scholarship behind it, all this is done with a beautiful simplicity and clarity that makes the book readily available to a wide circle of readers." I. Howard Marshall
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