{"id":84938,"date":"2024-09-19T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=84938"},"modified":"2024-09-19T01:08:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T06:08:11","slug":"tips-for-shaping-the-sunday-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=84938","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Shaping the Sunday Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Editor\u2019s 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/how-the-gospel-shapes-our-gathering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Part 1<\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Part 2,<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Part 3<span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The first worship service I designed took me six hours.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">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\u2019s songs, readings, and prayers. But I had never done this weekly work myself.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">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.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Home projects take me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fourth in a series of four articles on the design of a corporate worship gathering.<br \/>\nThe post Tips for Shaping the Sunday Gathering appeared first on 9Marks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"featured_media":84957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-84938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9marks","tag-general","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-08-29-at-11.19.54%E2%80%AFAM-1024x484-2-1.png?fit=1024%2C484&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84959,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84938\/revisions\/84959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}