Thoughts on Blended Worship

worship180 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:03:19 +0000

So I’ve been thinking about this a for a little while now. I’ve decided that I’m not a huge fan of the word ‘blended’. The other thing that I have decided is that there is so much emphasis put on this style of worship because people seem to think this is the answer to the problems within the church. The thought is that you can do newer songs without losing some of the older songs that people have come to know and love. I believe that this is a key element in leading the church in worship. Songs have meaning and they generally mean different things to different people at different times. This makes it difficult as a worship leader to choose songs because you want to keep current without leaving people behind. So how current is TOO current? How far back do you reach?

A few years ago before he died, Robert Webber begun calling this style “Converged”. I think this is a good name for it, and I believe that this is a little more than just semantics. Robert Webber was an amazing thinker and always took many things into consideration. I believe that this type of approach is the one that needs to be taken in order for this style of worship to actually work. Bringing different styles and different eras together on a weekly basis may be the hardest thing to do. I applaud those who do that weekly (I have been one of them for a while). There has to be a continued reach toward fine tuning this idea. Who’s going to step up?

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Thoughts on Blended Worship