Resounding Body
Building Christlike Church Communities through Music
Published on 1. September 2020
112 pages
978-1-78959-114-9 (ISBN)
Description
In the many worshipping communities, music leaders perform a vital function. They help to build Christlike, inclusive communities - what St Paul described as the "e;body of Christ"e;. However, resources can be in short supply.In this insightful and practical guide, an experienced church musician describes how, according to Paul, individuals and communities are transformed into the body of Christ, and how music-making enables this process, even when resources are in short supply.This valuable book encourages music leaders to step-up and persevere in low-resource contexts, and challenges all those who lead music in worship to focus not just on producing musical results but on building Christlike communities. It is essential reading for music leaders and those who train, oversee and nurture them, such as clergy, elders, worship committees and educators.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham
United Kingdom
File size
0,47 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78959-114-9 (9781789591149)
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09/2020
Sacristy Press
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Building the Body of Christ
- Church music as facilitating worship, in the full, Pauline sense of "worship"
- Church music as an agent of transformation
- Paul's two-stage process to building the body of Christ
- Church music as building the body of Christ
- Questions for discussion
- Engaging with the Spirit
- Walking with the Spirit
- Glimpsing an alternative reality
- Freedom and spontaneity
- Questions for discussion
- Discerning the Body of Christ
- Enabling participation
- Embracing diversity and unifying the community
- Questions for discussion
- Engaging those Beyond Your Worshipping Community
- Joining a church choir as a sort of baptism
- Working on the boundary between the body of Christ and wider society
- Questions for discussion
- Implications for Church Music Today
- Putting it into practice
- When we can't gather
- Questions for discussion
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Notes
