Singing Redemption - Week Two

Praise be! — Communal worship as a way of restoring, challenging and shaping
Recounting redemption resoundingly! Exploring how worship restores, challenges and shapes communities as they express themselves authentically to God.
SEEDS TO SOW: What songs help restore you? What songs help build you up?
Read Haggai 2: 1-9
Resetting on redemption.
Q: How can our worship help us take courage? What strength do we draw from the songs we sing together in difficult times?
Artists are often prophetic and prophets are often artistic.
Q: What is the role of the artist when it comes to offering public worship to God? Have we excluded a lot of artists and artistry from our churches and in doing so lost our God-given creativity and prophetic edge?
Q: If you could employ an artist for a year to work on worship projects in your church or local community what would you want them to do?
Read Psalm 98
Singing to the Lord a new song!
Worship is not about re-enactment — it is always meant to be a genuine new experience; not a performance of one.
Q: What new songs are we singing? And what old songs are we singing in a new way?
And singing a new song is not always meant literally.
Q: What are we proclaiming in our worship and our teaching about what redemption means today in the 21st century?
Read Ephesians 5: 15-20
Sharing life-giving music together!
Paul’s words here are about harmonising a community together.
Q: How does sharing music together help us to share all of life together?
Q: What is unique about our Christian tradition of sung worship and what can it give to the world?
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