Worship is a Bowl of Noodles - Or What Would Jesus Sing?

by Dennis Prince

237 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Dennis Prince, after working as a lecturer in Civil Engineering, attended Bible College and in 1976 was co-planter of the thriving Kingston City Church in Melbourne, Australia. He and his wife Nolene also published a widely used praise and worship resource in Australia - Resource Christian Music. Today he concentrates on Bible teaching and writing.

Reviews

[Alex]

Despite its quirky title, Dennis Prince's 'Worship is a Bowl of Noodles, or What Would Jesus Sing?' has a very straight forward message - we need to sing more about God and less about us!

This isn't a long or difficult book, but filled with solid theology it does require some perseverance. Prince has examined the content of 100's of worship songs, new and old and argues that most of the songs we sing are calorie heavy but nutrient lite comfort food, and that we need to rebalance this with an emphasis of meat and vegie redemption and God-focused praise songs.

He includes a chapter on music styles, although this is secondary to his purpose. Helpfully he also talks about men and worship, although again only briefly.

This is a book that graciously tackles the bad theology in much contemporary worship music and which every pastor and worship leader should read.