Signs Of A Worship In Need Of Renewal

The fourteen signs listed below are symptomatic of an apathetic worship and a passive congregation. 1. The congregation is passive and lacking in enthusiasm and a spirit of joy. 2. Visitors do not feel welcome or drawn into the community and its worship. 3. Worship is cerebral and oriented almost exclusively toward teaching. 4. Worship is evangelistic and oriented almost exclusively toward conversion. 5. Communication skills in preaching and leading worship are weak. 6. Sermons tend to be long, didactic, and lacking in application. 7. Communion is celebrated infrequently and when celebrated seems to be tacked on to the end of the service, often bearing the characteristics of a funeral. 8. People sit in a typical classroom formation with the back of another person's head as a major object of sight. 9. Singing lacks life, and the range of music is limited. 10. There is no sense in which the order of worship moves the congregation in a pattern that rehearses their fait…