8.11.2003
Most alternative worship emerges in an evangelical setting. (My PhD thesis "Christian faith making do in a postmodern world" has lots of data to back up this claim). Evangelicals tend to look at culture with arms folded. The world is evil. Christianity is a passport to heaven. Earth is a wait in transit lounge. Pull people in. Quick. Before they're left behind to the tune of Larry Norman's "I wish we'd all been ready".
The alternative worship movement takes the Incarnation much more seriously. The Word becomes flesh and moves in the neighbourhood. God goes to dance parties. Jesus is enfleshed in video loops. Faith is immersed in the city. Steve Collins writes of alternative worship as the end of the weekend. From Friday drinks through Saturday shopping and clubbing to alternative worship as the spiritual chill out time to complete the weekend.
- Steve Collins
The alternative worship movement takes the Incarnation much more seriously. The Word becomes flesh and moves in the neighbourhood. God goes to dance parties. Jesus is enfleshed in video loops. Faith is immersed in the city. Steve Collins writes of alternative worship as the end of the weekend. From Friday drinks through Saturday shopping and clubbing to alternative worship as the spiritual chill out time to complete the weekend.
- Steve Collins