This dissertation is an investigation into the principles that guide the translation of Scriptural texts for public worship. It is a case study that aims to establish definite guidelines for translating a specific category of texts for a specific context. For reasons related to …
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Through the years, each generation of worshipers has conceived throughout their service many beliefs about worship; some inspired by the Holy Spirit, and others, self-proclaimed. Many of these self-acknowledged concepts do not align with biblical truths because instead, they fol…
This dissertation examines the impact of Harold Best’s Music through the Eyes of Faith (1993) and Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts (2003) on seven representative worship authors and educators. Through interviews and close examination of their writ…
In the same manner that the first-century church had to shift from traditional Judaism to a radical spiritual imagination that included Gentiles, the contemporary American church must shift from paradigms of church rooted in medieval and modern forms of Christendom to new ideals…
Theater and the church have been at odds throughout history. This conflict has led to alienation and judgment of artists by the church and limited creative opportunities for the church to be a public witness in culture. Connecting with theater allows the church a chance to engag…
The paradoxical disconnect in religious and spiritual formation between the church and persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is the impetus for this research project. I suggest a paradoxical disconnection because of the ironic relationship that unfortuna…
This document explores sacred music by women composers for the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) of the Catholic and Christian churches. The study researches exclusively choral and vocal solo music by women composers for the church season of Lent. Other primary limitations include…
This study identifies a spiritual deficit on the part of the believer and the need to transition the believer from a place of spiritual stagnation to spiritual well-being. Through the review of statistical data that identifies spiritual decline in the life of the average believe…
This project seeks to increase the discipleship practices of the worship ministry at Park Place Baptist Church in Pearl, Mississippi. Chapter 1 presents the ministry context, rationale, and the methodology for this project. Chapter 2 provides biblical support for the need of the…
This project will encompass the equipping of Biblical Studies and Christian Ministry students at Blue Mountain College with a biblical theology of corporate worship. Chapter 1 discusses the context, rationale, and research methodology for the project. Chapter 2 deals with the bi…
The current worship experience at First Lynnhaven Baptist Church exhibits a need for improvement and effectiveness because the choir worship team is perceivably disconnected from the congregation and lacking a high spiritual quality of attachment to God. The proposed solution is…
This autoethnography gives voice to my personal experience as it compares to the experiences of the representative sample of interviewees and as it enables an anthropological understanding of some of the issues involved in serving in a cross-cultural pastoral appointment, and pa…
In this project, a responsive reading worship resource, cast in contemporary and inclusive language, based on the historic confessions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was developed and tested in three congregations. Readings were selected to give voice to the full range of h…
This document serves as both an exploration and informal analysis of five published settings of the Evening Canticles (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) written by living American composers. Its main objective is to highlight music which is lesser known among a genre based primarily…
Churches in the twenty-first century come in all types, shapes, and sizes. The church plant movement is bringing many new churches into existence. With many of these church plants, the assumption is that a contemporary worship style comes with it. This could be viewed this way, …
Since the institution of Old Testament-Temple corporate worship, there has been someone assigned the task of leading congregational worship. The Chronicler records King David’s divisions of the sons of Asaph to be “set apart for service…under the direction of their father in the…
Chapter 1 provides an introduction for the project and outlines its goals. This chapter gives the rationale for the project and considers essential background information to understand the unique context of Christ Presbyterian Church (CPC). Chapter 1 communicates that the purpos…
Much has been written of the desire for authenticity. That it is a return to the first, the original, to that which is the real. And it is no surprise that such a desire plays an important role among modern evangelical Christians. In a world that often seems topsy-turvy, where t…
Nowhere in Scripture is it mandated that God’s people are to be segregated by age as they gather for corporate worship. However, descriptions of corporate worship in both the Old and New Testaments depict intergenerational engagement with the Triune God. In many North American c…