Alternative Worship In The Free Church Tradition

Because worship motivates believers to care for a broken creation and instills in them a vision of God's new creation, it lies at the heart of a congregation's outreach into other ministries. The following is a description of a church in the free evangelical tradition that is breaking new ground in the integration of worship and related areas of service. Worship is the great corrective to the voices that insistently tell us that we are in charge of our lives. In worship, God looks us in the eye and graciously tells us that we are not, as we supposed, the center of the universe, but that God is. Finite and feeble creatures that we are, we are released from the burden of having to accomplish eternal things in our lives and in our world because these eternal things have always been God's business. Worship offers to us the gift of a new perspective. This new perspective allows us to see the world not as we experience it, but as it really is: God-centered, God-loved, God-owned. At Grace…