Worship Life as Metropolis
October 20th, 2008 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Ministry Philosophy, Theology
Great little article by Paul Glavic over on Nueue about the complexities of a life of worship.
He shares my perplexity over the term “worship” and “worship leader” and gives a very helpful analogy to describe it. Worship life as a metropolis:
While no metaphor is perfect, this analogy helps us to understand worship. Consider the terms proper and metro: In the metropolis of worship, there is a worship-proper which consists of seeking God in prayer, learning the Judeo-Christian story as told in Scripture, and talking with God through the mysteriously vulnerable language of song–all of those “churchy” things. These things are the core, the urban center, of the worship metropolis. From this core, Christians “commute” from worship-proper out to worship-metro – to the suburbs of the Christian life. Suburban sprawl is a good thing in this context–it’s called building God’s Kingdom.
Check it out: The Metropolis of Worship.
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