Dare to Dive In! Strategies and Resources for Involving Your Whole Church in Worship

Dare to Dive In! Strategies and Resources for Involving Your Whole Church in Worship, Heather Kirk-Davidoff and Nancy Wood-Lyczak, Abingdon Press, Nashville TN, 2006. ISBN 0-687-33284-2. We believe that God can change people. Do you? What if worship at our churches was rooted in the conviction that drawing close to God will change our lives? What if members of our congregation began to worship each week with the expectation that something will happen here that will change my life? How would worship be different? When Christian worship began, it was essentially testimony about the power of God to change lives. The early leaders of the Christian church were on fire with what they had experienced with Jesus, and later, at Pentecost. They wanted nothing more than to invite everyone they encountered to share that experience with them. They sought only to be authentic witnesses to Jesus' promise of new life. We believe that you can have powerful, life-changing worship every Sunday no matter where you are, no matter how up-to-date your church's technology is, no matter how cool your parishioners are. We outline a step-by-step plan for moving your worship out of the predictable routines that have made it predictable and routine, and opening it up to the power of the Holy Spirit.

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• Discipleship development
  • Getting to know Jesus
  • Getting to know Christianity
  • Discipleship instruction
  • Spiritual Formation
• Evangelism
  • Articulating our faith
  • Sharing our witness
  • Community of Christ missionary resources
• Starting new groups/congregations
• Congregational leadership
• Worship
• Christian education
• Children and Youth Ministry
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• Hospitality Ministry
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• International Christianity