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This brief book is written to assist worship leaders in choosing worthy and appropriate worship songs. Leaders have more worship song choices than ever before. Question is: On what basis will these decisions be made?
A rubric has been designed whereby leaders can evaluate any type of congregational songs from any style for its theological, lyrical, and musical value. The process can be used by different kinds of worship leaders, accommodating variables of Christian theology, taste, experience, education, and so forth. Leaders may assign numeric values to various features of any worship song in categories related to theology, words, and music.
The authors hope worship leaders will:
Finally, the authors desire to help equip those who choose congregational songs with practical criteria and a workable, negotiable instrument.
Authors:
Dr. Constance Cherry is Professor of Worship at Indiana Wesleyan University (Marion, Indiana), where she directs the major in Christian worship. She is also on the faculty of the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies. Dr. Cherry has served local churches as director of worship and music, and as pastor. She is a published composer, author, and hymn writer, with hymns in seven major hymnals. Dr. Mary M. Brown is Professor of English at Indiana Wesleyan University and chair of the Division of Modern Language and Literature. She teaches literature and creative writing. She publishes poetry and creative non-fiction and is a co-editor of The Steinbeck Review. Dr. Christopher T. Bounds is Professor of Theology at Indiana Wesleyan University. He is an Ordained Elder in The Arkansas Conference of The United Methodist Church, where he pastored churches for eight years before coming to Indiana Wesleyan in 2002.
A rubric has been designed whereby leaders can evaluate any type of congregational songs from any style for its theological, lyrical, and musical value. The process can be used by different kinds of worship leaders, accommodating variables of Christian theology, taste, experience, education, and so forth. Leaders may assign numeric values to various features of any worship song in categories related to theology, words, and music.
The authors hope worship leaders will:
- deepen their thoughtfulness in choosing congregational songs, and
- have a greater assurance of accountability before God and others regarding what is voiced corporately in services of worship for which they have responsibility.
Finally, the authors desire to help equip those who choose congregational songs with practical criteria and a workable, negotiable instrument.
Authors:
Dr. Constance Cherry is Professor of Worship at Indiana Wesleyan University (Marion, Indiana), where she directs the major in Christian worship. She is also on the faculty of the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies. Dr. Cherry has served local churches as director of worship and music, and as pastor. She is a published composer, author, and hymn writer, with hymns in seven major hymnals. Dr. Mary M. Brown is Professor of English at Indiana Wesleyan University and chair of the Division of Modern Language and Literature. She teaches literature and creative writing. She publishes poetry and creative non-fiction and is a co-editor of The Steinbeck Review. Dr. Christopher T. Bounds is Professor of Theology at Indiana Wesleyan University. He is an Ordained Elder in The Arkansas Conference of The United Methodist Church, where he pastored churches for eight years before coming to Indiana Wesleyan in 2002.
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