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Encountering God Together: Leading Worship Services That Honor God, Minister to His People, and Build His Church Kindle Edition

by David G. Peterson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Does Sunday morning leave you with a sense of awe? It should!
Church services are an opportunity to gather together and encounter God.
More than that, God builds the church through us as we use his gifts to minister
to one another.
Yet . . . have you experienced services that downplayed their focus on God’s
presence to emphasize fellowship and ministry? Or ones whose “worship” had
little sense of believers’ coming together to minister to one another? How do we
regain the right balance in our services?
Here David Peterson will teach you:
• The biblical foundations of
worship
• The meaning and purpose of
gathering together
• What acceptable worship is
• How to plan corporate worship
biblically and creatively
• A true measure of church growth
• How we edify the church
• Patterns and varieties of service
models
• How to structure each service to
take worshipers on a meaningful
journey together

“Biblical, practical, and insightful guidelines for thinking through how God wants us
to meet with him as we meet with each other. . . . And as you’d expect, the beauty
and power of Christ’s atoning work shine throughout. Tight in all the right places and
encouraging biblically informed freedom everywhere else, Encountering God Together
should be read by anyone involved in planning or leading gatherings of the church.”
—BOB KAUFLIN, Director, Sovereign Grace Music, Louisville, Kentucky
DAVID G. PETERSON is an

Editorial Reviews

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What a breath of fresh air for our meeting with God and one another! David brings his theological insights and his pastoral longings together to help us reflect on how we do church in community. This is a wonderfully healthy and practical guide and challenge for those who lead and speak in Christian gatherings, but also for all of us who participate. To know better what we are doing and why will help us to make the very most of these times. -- Paul Perkin, St Mark’s Battersea Rise, London

‘David Peterson has done an excellent job in applying the theological framework of his earlier book, Engaging with God, to the practical realities of corporate worship within the life of the church. This book is fair-minded and generous, full of biblical insight and practical wisdom. Leaders of churches, congregations, preachers and musicians alike will all benefit from it.’ -- John Risbridger, Chair of Keswick Ministries, Minister and Team Leader, Above Bar Church, Southampton, England

‘Almost 15 years ago, David Peterson’s book Engaging with God rocked my world. I had never read a book that so effectively combined faithful biblical scholarship with a passion for the gospel and linked both of them to what we call “worship.” It remains my number one book to recommend on the theology of worship. His new book, Encountering God Together, is a long-awaited follow-up, providing biblical, practical, and insightful guidelines for thinking through how God wants us to meet with him as we meet with each other. He covers a broad range of topics including prayer, Scripture reading, preaching, bodily expression, liturgy, evangelism, and emotions. And as you’d expect, the beauty and power of Christ’s atoning work shine throughout. Tight in all the right places and encouraging biblically informed freedom everywhere else, Encountering God Together should be read by anyone involved in planning or leading gatherings of the church.’ -- Bob Kauflin, Sovereign Grace Music, Louisville KY

About the Author

David G. Peterson is an emeritus faculty member of Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia, where he teaches New Testament and a course on worship. He served as principal of Oak Hill College in London from 1996 to 2007.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00L5NTSD6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ P&R Publishing (February 21, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 21, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 636 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 195 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1596387068

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The Anti Church-Growth Book

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2014

The biggest point anyone needs to understand is this guy, David Peterson, is against "seeker sensitive" fad in churches. He writes the anti-Andy Stanley mentality.

This entire book is about how the church is supposed to be building itself up. The evangelism happens because non-church attenders would find church-goers so attractive.

In other words, don't do Kindness Outreach, don't do big Easter events meant to attract people. Simply encourage one another and allow people to become like you.

This is quite different than what you're hearing from some of the "superstar" church authors out there. Almost every book I've read on church growth/health deals with doing what you can to attract non-Christians. Peterson says that would happen naturally if your church people are healthy in how they treat one another and how they sincerely worship God alone during their Sunday morning services.

It's an interesting, divergent, and maybe arguably a biblical argument. I just don't feel like it would be something I would throw out there.

If you hate what the church growth people are claiming, you'll flock and promote this book like crazy as it's completely opposite.

This book was provided for review, at no cost, by P&R Publishing.

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