Editor’s Note: This is the fourth 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, Part 2, and Part 3.
The first worship service I designed took me six hours.
I rummaged around hymn books, source books, websites, and my Bible. I consulted paper indexes, lists of what we sang as a church, and my own memory. I was a new preaching pastor with oversight of our Sunday gathering. For the better part of a decade, I had worked with brothers responsible for curating and ordering the church’s songs, readings, and prayers. But I had never done this weekly work myself.
Six hours said something about me, that I wanted to get it right. I wanted a service that was coherent, beautiful, and instructive. But six hours revealed something else: that I was not organized for the task.
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