This booklet looks at some of the challenging things you can do to help people engage with Scripture during a service. It is a booklet for dipping into, and finding what works for you and for your church.
This study offers a new approach to Old Testament law that interrelates different levels of law and suggests how law can play an important role in spirituality, doctrine and ethics.
A simple, staged process can create a safe and secure way to enable people to pray out loud themselves in groups—with a resulting growth in confidence in talking to God with others, and often greater confidence in talking to others about God.
Recent liturgical resources have reintroduced a wide range of seasonal provision. But how do these fit in with the rhythms of modern life? And are they really biblical? Or were the Reformers right to abolish them in favour of focusing on working through Scripture?
This practical study walks the reader through the process one church followed in casting vision, highlighting both successes and failures, and identifying the key issues at different stages. It offers a template that can be adapted to different contexts to allow the theory of vision to become a reality.
This booklet has the potential to challenge and transform the way churches worship and their practice of leadership—who does what, the relationship between congregation and leaders and our approach to mission and to the world outside the church walls.
After looking at key questions, this practical guide
explores the whole process, from gathering a team,
through the process of planning, to exploring all
the elements�including eight ways to read the Bible
creatively. This booklet could actually make all-age
worship something you look forward to!
If we want people to hear the gospel, we need to speak their
language, and thinking about marketing can help us do that.
This wide-ranging introduction looks at who we are talking
to and how we can do it more effectively, using publicity, the internet and the local media.
This compelling study looks at both the biblical theme and
the pastoral need for its recovery, and then offers practical
resources for engaging with it as an element in worship and as a
shape for worship—essential if we are to proclaim the ‘now and
not yet’ of the kingdom of God with integrity.
This practical and remarkably comprehensive study addresses a
wide range of these questions. It offers starting points for those
who are starting out, along with reflections on good practice
for those more experienced.