Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of four articles on the design of a corporate worship gathering. 9Marks does not promote one way to go about the design of a worship service. Nevertheless, this is a good example of how one pastor taught his church about corporate worship and liturgy design. Here is Part 1 and Part 2.
We’ve moved in this series from the fixed and permanent to the more flexible. Every church should sing and preach the Word. But churches can go about that differently. I’ve known of churches where the congregation requests songs on the spot. That’s not what we do, but that’s one way to do it.
In this post, I’ll outline how we design our worship services. There are five sections of material here working chronologically as they typically happen. But these aspects of service design often blend together. We have a formula to help us work well together, but we don’t mean to be formulaic.
Focusing the Service
The most consequential and non-negotiable part of our service is the preached Word. Preaching is the main way Christ
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