Corporate Worship Final

2 Realms of Our Identity

1. Kingdom of Light vs Kingdom of Darkness

2. Right hand kingdom (cross/God's grace) vs Left hand kingdom (law/government)

3. Primary identity in Christ -> social realm also engages our identity but in smaller lesser way

WORK / PLAY / WORSHIP ISSUES

ISSUE: we worship work

ISSUE: we work in our play

ISSUE: we play in our worship

WORK / PLAY / WORSHIP FIX

1. create margin/boundaries with work so that there is more space to allow worship to be most important thing in life

2. need to reorient our lives so that worship flows through our work instead of getting pushed aside

Visual Feast

Semiotics / symbols (what does this symbolize)

Visual Feast: Culture

- people make assumptions about things based on own perspective/bias

- thick vs thin description

- context matters

- slow down

Catering vs Communicating

- create service based on scripture -> adapt to culture of community

- catering = potentially lose body of Christ

- we don't do things for the wants of people -> we adapt to reach the needs

Veith Problem: Open Up vs Close Down

- Open up = keeping / adding things to service for the betterment of those there

- Close down = take away to fit wants of community (could be more problematic)

Emotional Approach to Selection

a song is good if it is enjoyed by those who sing it, if it makes them feel energized/excited/emotionally touched in some way

Evangelistic Approach to Selection

a song is good if it fill the church and helps to spread the gospel by attracting people to worship and evagelistic events

Aesthetic Approach to Selection

a song is good if it meets artistic (poetic and musical) criteria of quality, that is, if it can be seen as work of art

Theological Approach to Selection

a song is good if its text meet high theological criteria of quality and has proclamatory value (hymns)

Traditional Approach to Selection

a song is good if it has been sung for a long time and has shown it can stand the test of time

Personal Meaning Approach to Selection

a song is good if it has had meaning in a person's life and people have strong personal memories associated with it (like a good friend)

Integrated Approach to Selection

a song is good if it makes connections between words and music, people and theology, emotion, and many other polarities

Good Text Evaluator of Music

- needs to be theologically sound (beware of misleading theology)

- takes human experience seriously

- readily understood -> simple, repetitive NOT shallow

- memorable poetic value

Good Tune Evaluator of Music

- singable by anyone

- does not depend on accompaniment

- does not overuse popular stylistic elements

- creates balance between easy and familiar and interesting

Good Match Evaluator of Music

- 1 text to 1 tune

- mood of music = mood of text

- rhythm of music fit natural rhythm of words

- climax of tune = climax of poetry

Balance of Polarities Evaluator of Music

- immanence vs transcendence

- subjective vs objective

- vertical vs horizontal

- future hope vs present help

- celebration vs lament

Plato Theology of Music

- music = intellectual drive

- moral guide -> poetry feeds waters of passion

Augustine Theology of Music

- music = science and pleasure

- science = don't understand fully how music impacts us

- pleasure = most beautiful things pull us from God & music as potential idol we worship

Calvin Theology of Music

- concerned about use of music

- 1 unique sacred style

- 1 appropriate emotion

- NO instruments

- textual stringency

Luther Theology of Music

- find Christ on earth -> God creates beauty

- music = gift -> music can arouse the sad, sluggish, and dull spirit

Us Theology of Music

- effective leadership in worship

- know audience

- know how to engage with them

Church Theology of Music

- cultural context = key to feel something

- free from bad connotations

- not entirely separated from culture BUT not 100% like culture

3 Stages of Culture

1. Externalization (ongoing outpouring of human into world PHYSICAL and MENTAL activity

2. Objectivization (culture is a thing of its own coming back higher in status)

3. Internalization (object of culture come back and form people...culture -> man)

Liturgy and Tradition 3 I's

1. Inculturation (engage culture you're in -> how your formation relates to where you are)

2. invention of tradition (created not discovered infusion of new traditions)

3. identity formation (what you were brought up on -> focuses on individual)