A proposal for four marks of communities participating in “Emergent Worship.”
I hope I am becoming more translucent, more rested, more me. I hope I allow some passions to outgrow me, and then to turn and let them remind me who I am, all over again. Rainer Maria Rilke’s “To Music” does just that.
What exactly is emergent/altworship?
“When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child this is: art: prayer: love.” -A Circle of Quiet, chapter 1
In a society as highly mobile as North America and with churchgoers dispersed among a multiplicity of denominations, new networks and stand-alone congregations it is perplexing trying to keep track of churchgoers. What percentage of switching churches as against those who are leaving?