Beyond the Worship Wars: Building Vital and Faithful Worship
Thomas G. Long
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Experiencing mystery, practicing hospitality, and recovering a sense of drama are among the nine characteristics of vital and faithful worship that Thomas G. Long identified when studying congregations that seemed to have avoided the tensions around worship that are so common today. These "third-way" congregations—neither "traditional" nor "contemporary"—are creating worship that is both vital and faithful.
Through an illuminating analysis of these churches' practices and experiences, Long calls other churches to genuine hospitality and enlivened worship founded in the yearning for an experience of the mystery and complexity of God.
Praise for the Book
“Thomas Long is eminently wise and acutely discerning! … Beware: This book will change your church as it enlivens your worship.” —Marva J. Dawn
“Wise, pastoral, and theologically astute. Pastors and congregations alike will profit greatly from a book so clearly written, so well thought through, so faithfully conceived.” —William H. Willimon
About the Author
Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, has been an ordained Presbyterian pastor since 1971. In addition to his previous teaching positions at Princeton Theological Seminary, Columbia Theological Seminary, and Erskine Theological Seminary, he served as director of Geneva Press, a division of the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation. A sought-after speaker, writer, and homiletician, he is the author or editor of more than a dozen books. He and his wife, Kimberly live in Atlanta, Georgia.
ISBN# 1-56699-240-0
Alban No. AL231
paper, 119 pages
2001
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