Worship as Community Drama provides a method for evaluating liturgy. We read product reviews for everything from fast food restaurants to new cars. Managers do performance reviews for employees and we grade school systems based graduation rates and standardized test results. It's essential that congregational leaders have a trusted way to look at what the Church is doing when it worships. We need a metric for determining where we are in order to improve.
Hegy presents a rubric for evaluation then uses those criteria to evaluate several different actual worship services, ranging from a television Roman Catholic mass to a Pentecostal meeting. He argues that much research has been done on cult, hero and idol worship but very little empirical research exists Christian, Jewish and even Muslim worship. We need to be informed on taking a critical look at ourselves.
This is a must have for congregational leaders and pastors.
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