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	Alternative worship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alternative Worship is defined by its planning method and approach rather than its format, as the format will be different each time.
		Alternative worship is very different to Contemporary Christian worship movement or "Youth" services.
		Alternative Worship often does not have an obvious leader or stage, and may not involve singing or lecture-style presentations at all.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alternative_worship (339 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alternative worship
		Religious worship may be performed individually, in informally organized groups, or as part of an organized service with a designated leader (as in a church church building is a building used in Christian worship.
		The term 'alternative worship' emerged in the early 1990s to mean forms of church that attempt to interact constructively with contemporary culture, and not just dress up in the latest fashions for the purpose of evangelism.
		Alternative worship attempts to create spaces in which people can be their true selves in relationship with God and one another, without religious role-playing or escapism.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alternative-worship (897 words)

	Alternative Worship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		An alternative group recognises that worship goes further than a once a week get together and is very much a move to a more wholistic lifestyle.
		People get involved in alternative worship work as a result of dissatisfaction with mainstream church, they want to express feelings in worship more fully and connect with a deeper and more questioning understanding of theology and spirituality.
		Alternative worship is accessable, something you can be involved in from where you are, you don't have to get into The Culture and you can feel at home participating in it, being part of it.
	www.alt-worship.org (617 words)

	Small Fire - Intro
		Alternative worship is what happens when people create worship for themselves, in a way that fully reflects who they are as people and the culture that they live their everyday lives in.
		Alternative worship tries to interpret tradition faithfully into new contexts - but this may mean changing the form in order to preserve or revivify the meaning.
		That is to say, alternative worship seeks to bring God and the participant together - but not to predetermine what the outcome of the meeting might be.
	www.smallfire.org /intropage2.html (728 words)

	Alternative Worship and the Significance of Popular Culture
		Alternative worship arises from the need for the church to engage with a culture shift, from the patterns of Christian life which took shape in modernity, to a faith which brings the authentic message of Christ to bear on life in postmodernity (Roberts, 1999).
		One way in which alternative worship is deemed to be authentic is if it resonates with the curators of the worship and with the culture outside the church.
		Alternative worship as a strategy for resistance and contextualisation in postmodernity needs underpinning by theology as well as its intuitive grasp of the language, signs and symbols of the culture.
	seaspray.trinity-bris.ac.uk /~altwfaq/theology/awtuk00401001.html (4252 words)

	Steve Collins: Small Fire: Worship (alternative version)
		Nearly all alternative worship services contain installations of some kind, and sometimes entire events, for example labyrinths, are on the borderline between church service and art installation, partaking equally of both.
		Alternative worship services don't "target" visitors but encourage them to take part in the worship at whatever level they feel comfortable – or just sit back and watch.
		Many churches are tempted to pick up the latest fashionable form of worship, use it for a while, and if it doesn't "work" ("work" often being defined as producing conversions of a particular kind in a particular timescale) it is discarded as a failure.
	www.ship-of-fools.com /Columns/Collins/Collins0900.html (1257 words)

	Alternative Christian Worship
		What was important was not the style but that the church and worship and theology was being done in imaginative ways and forms that people could relate to in their lives.
		Charismatic worship came on the back of an exciting renewal movement in the UK characterized by ‘body ministry’ which was very liberating but it then seemed to get stuck somewhere in the 70s with performance based folk/rock chorus singing and a very front led type of worship with a set of celebrities and personalities.
		Worship tends to be planned as a group and often different parts are taken on by different people – it all flows together on the night with many voices and expressions.
	www.theturning.org /folder/altworship.html (1880 words)

	faithworks.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		What makes them "church" is not their worship events but the meals, art projects and businesses that bring them together on an almost daily basis to share life together.
		The postmodern worship movement in America was informed by the many art and cultural movements that swept through the country during the 90s.
		The inspiration for worship is now coming from the worshipers themselves, who have given you their art to be utilized for the service.
	www.faithworks.com /archives/next_new_worship.htm (2540 words)

	the collective : alternative worship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		our main monthly worship is host - a creative act of worship that can take many forms, often using elements such as projected visuals, video, ritual, music and home grown liturgy.
		it is an act of worship in which all are invited to take part in the ideas, planning and creation of worship
		in the uk this is a term referrring to groups around the country exploring what worship can be rather than accepting traditional and modern worship which can often seem irrelevant and hollow.
	www.electricangel.co.uk /altworship/worship.htm (278 words)

	Proost - stuff you want! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		If the church is to remain faithful and relevant in the third millennium, it must revitalize its worship, its spirituality and its theology.
		Alternative Worship offers new ways of being church: through liturgies, meditation, prayers, creative ideas, visuals, music and rituals, it aims to help spark and renew imagination and creativity.
		This original collection of resources, arranged around major festivals and feast days in the church year, draws on the experience of many who are well known within the alternative worship movement.
	www.proost.co.uk /alternativeworship.html (149 words)

	Alternative Worship and Seeker Friendly Worship. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alternative Worship: Resources from and for the Emerging Church with CDROM.
		In Alternative Worship the concept of worship as a team activity spreads beyond organisation and leadership to the entire congregation.
		Alternative Worship is likely to make use of ambient music pervading a service and helping to set a worshipful atmosphere.
	www.springnuts.plus.com /windsor.htm (7136 words)

	Alternative Worship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This resource contains twenty ready-to-use, non-traditional worship services in a convenient loose-leaf notebook, which makes it easy to remove pages to make copies for other participants (and permission to photocopy is included!).
		Each of the twenty services includes an order of worship, ready to photocopy; the full text of prayers, readings, and meditations; and all the guidance needed to handle video clips or other special arrangements.
		Alternatives for Worshipand The Alternative Worship Primercan be ordered by mail, fax, phone, e-mail, or on-line from our orders page.
	www.churchstuff.com /alt.html (343 words)

	This is Jordon Cooper's weblog: What is Alternative Worship
		NOS functioned as a model for how to put together a genuinely contemporary form of church combining cutting-edge theology, new liturgy, media and music, and the stunning results were an inspiration and source of hope to many Christians that the Church could be relevant to real life in the 90s and beyond.
		When NOS collapsed in 1995 amid shocking revelations of sexual and psychological abuse, the entire movement seemed in peril; but it became clear that the internal problems of NOS were unique and not a characteristic of the movement, and the leadership of the Anglican church expressed their support.
		This can be as true of modern forms of worship which deny people's real situations as it is of old forms of worship whose relevance has been exhausted.
	www.jordoncooper.com /2004/03/what-is-alternative-worship.html (567 words)

	Marie Voth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Contemporary worship is now so ingrained in the church that any other form of worship is viewed as unbiblical or is simply mocked.
		Worship in the postmodern setting is referred to as alternative or experiential.
		Alternative worship is hard to define because it means something different to each person.
	www.hesston.edu /academic/faculty/MicheleH/YM/MarieVoth.htm (1681 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Alternative Worship: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alternative worship has been around the block a few times by now - thrust into our imaginations by the pioneering Nine O'Clock Service in Sheffield, wrestled with by angst-ridden post-Christians, written off by church leaders who should have known better...
		This book brings together a collection of 'alternative' worship ideas from a wide range of groups who are trying things out, experimenting with images and words, playing with liturgy...
		'Alternative Worship' will be a great start for anyone wanting to try new things; and it will be a great encouragement to those who have been modelling faithfully an alternative for what seems like forever.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0281053960 (656 words)

	The Very Best Books : Alternative Worship: Resources from and for the Emerging Church
		Alternative Worship: Resources from and for the Emerging Church
		It takes a part worship components from several worship gatherings and spaces in England and puts them into book form to inspire, teach, and to be used in your own context.
		I have seen parts of it used in traditional parishes and in brand new alternative worship spaces as well as seeker services.
	www.elise.com /store/Reviews/ItemId/0801091705 (161 words)

	Sue Wallace: An A to Z of Alternative Worship
		I've been playing with the idea of an A to Z of alternative worship, to help describe what its all about.
		I was recently at a worship service where 40 of the 70 minute service was spent watching a screen.
		Although there are other elements to worship such as "giving worth" to God but ultimately worship in its broadest sense is about how we live our lives.
	suewallace.blogspot.com /2005/09/a-to-z-of-alternative-worship.html (1680 words)

	Alternative Worship: Resources from and for the Emerging Church
		If the church is to remain faithful and relevant in the third millennium it must be in tune with alternative worship, a refreshing blend of first-century faith with twenty-first century technology and language.
		With one hand in the past and one in the future, Alternative Worship delivers an original collection of resources for receptive churches in the mainstream or those on the progressive edge.
		He has led worship in churches and festivals across the United Kingdom and has been involved in recording and releasing several alternative worship albums.
	www.worshipmusic.com /0801091705.html (330 words)

	Where Two or More Are Gathered: Exploring Alternative Worship Strategies
		As a frequent performer in alternative worship services and leader of a monthly jazz worship service in my hometown, I am in touch with churches nationwide that are currently exploring these questions.
		This woman's singular act of adoration demonstrates that effective worship integrates creativity, extravagance, understanding, originality, and spontaneity in a manner that is both personal and participatory as well as community enhancing.
		Her act of worship enhances the disciple's understanding and ultimately the continuing Christian community as Jesus predicts in the last verse.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1660 (2519 words)

	Joel A. Brondos: Alternative Worship
		Advice given in church-growth seminars on “worship that attracts and holds the unchurched” includes such admonitions as “make it user-friendly,” “keep it simple,” let it be “from the heart,” cultivate informality, maintain a hospitable atmosphere, give a positive message, keep the music up-beat, and exercise quality control.
		Since the use of contemporary popular music characterizes most “alternative worship services,” the celebrants and devotees of such worship may not have discerned that it stands in a tradition at least two centuries old.
		However, hymnwriting for worship and devotion was an ongoing activity in Lutheran Churches, and hymns around the beginning of the eighteenth century reflected the more subjectivistic faith of pietism, as well as pietism’s stress on sanctification.
	joelbrondos.worldmagblog.com /joelbrondos/archives/004453.html (1263 words)

	Amazon.com: Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Alternative Worship: Resources from and for the Emerging Church by Sally Morgenthaler
		In order to reach the 18-35 year olds, churches need to incorporate alternative worship services into their ministries that meet the unique needs of the emerging generations.
		Emerging Worship, as Kimball explains it, is Christ honoring and I am thrilled to be in an early stage of what will probably become the dominant church gathering model in the decades to come.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0310256445?v=glance (2421 words)

	Steve Collins: Small Fire: All-age alternative worship in Bristol
		"It would appear that alternative worship has given the established members at Cotham something new in their worshipping experience, but they have given us something else – life experience, and a model of the faith which never capitulated to the values of materialism, or the cosiness of fundamentalism.
		The main worship space centres on a low altar of extraordinary beauty, conjured up from (among other things) a sheet of perspex and two Ikea video racks, all weighted down with candles.
		In a conventional act of worship, we know where we are and how to respond next by the set pattern of words.
	www.ship-of-fools.com /Columns/Collins/Collins0701.html (1041 words)

	Bradley Sowash - Inspirational Jazz Pianist
		Every jazz worship service is uniquely tailored to a particular church's traditions including hymn singing (with jazz accompaniment), readings, prayer and communion if desired.
		The possibilities are endless but the goal is always to create a worship experience with a music emphasis that is welcoming, participatory and accessible to all.
		Alternative worship services created by Bradley Sowash based on the themes of either "Go and Serve The Lord" or "All God’s People." These services are ‘artsy’ with scripture and lay readings as well as poetry and a ‘visual prayer board.’
	bradleysowash.com /churches.htm (2132 words)

	emergingchurch.info > reflection > greg adkins
		It's alternative worship, so by definition, it's an alternative to more common forms of worship.
		One, environment in worship is more important than most people realize.
		When they come and see a place prepared, they are hopefully reminded that their father is in the same way preparing a place for them as well.
	www.emergingchurch.info /reflection/gregadkins (667 words)

	Mixing passion with multi-media ritual.New age and blasphemous, radical and exciting, The Nine O'clock service (NOS) in ...
		A Church in which pounding house music and dazzling visual images are combined with liturgy and latin has proved fascinating to the media, while others have been inspired to pick up the video cameras, dig out dance tunes and badger their own vicars into letting them put out a NOS alike service.
		All that is so much water under the bridge now, but it serves to illustrate the depth of feeling generated by a group of night clubbing young people who set out in 1987 to find a way of worshipping that reflected their lives concerns and tastes.
		There is worship in the working together to pull it on.
	nineoclockservice.tripod.com /mortn.htm (1874 words)

	Alternative Worship - UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Mass is based in Nottingham and identifies high quality worship, active expression, community commitment and spiritual freedom among its priorities.
		We wish to rediscover the old and be unafraid to experiment with the new and believe that worship is not something where we should be passive observers in the pews.
		Worship should be about community, reality, involvement and engagement with the real world outside the church building.
	www.alt-worship.org /altg.html (2578 words)

	The Bridge Alternative Worship Service, Poplar Bluff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Bridge is a new experience in worship.
		As worship unfolds you will find a unique blend of music, video and an inspiring message all put together under a theme to move you.
		This worship ministry is all about bridging the gap in our lives.
	www.makingbridges.org (167 words)

	Alternative Worship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Trying to define alternative worship is like trying to catch lightening in a jar.
		We often evoke a wide range of emotions in the alternative service, not simply the joy and thankfulness that are often found from the participants of a praise and worship service.
		The key to dance in the context of worship is that the dance needs to "speak." One observer stated that he had found that most liturgical dance didn't seem to offer a message, and seemed to be little more than someone waving around colored cloth.
	home.comcast.net /~twist.of.faith/altwor.htm (786 words)

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