The Worship Architect Quotes

“One must be careful, however, not to view worship as a series of unrelated episodes of conversation between God and humans.”
― Constance M. Cherry, The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services

“corporate worship is what happens when the body of Christ assembles to hear with one heart and speak with one voice the words, praises, prayers, petitions, and thanks fitting to Christian worship.”
― Constance M. Cherry, The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services

“If all the ideas about worship today can’t be translated into real plans for dialoguing with God, what good are they?”
― Constance M. Cherry, The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services

“True worship is the experience of encountering God through the means that God usually employs, a conversation built on revelation/response.”
― Constance M. Cherry, The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services

“In other words, if (over time) your life is not changed, if you have not been formed, if you fail to live obediently the demands of the gospel, if you do not pursue the kingdom of God, you have not truly worshiped.”
― Constance M. Cherry, The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services

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― Constance M. Cherry, The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services

“As worship takes its course, the Godhead freely “borrows” from within itself, as the equal exchange of ministry and service to one another transpires. The idea of “borrowing from itself” is not unlike the musical concept of rubato. When a musician employs rubato in a performance, it is a matter of temporarily disregarding the metronomic strictness of the designated tempo so that freedom of expression can occur.”
― Constance M. Cherry, The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services

“Finally, the house is built, the service is planned. But worship design is not only what is written on paper or projected on a screen. Worship is an event! It is about real people in real community offering their real worship to the one true and living God. Worship is a relational encounter, and therefore a service, like a house, must facilitate relationships not only with God but with others.”
― Constance M. Cherry, The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services

“Whether or not worship is pleasing to God is the central concern of this book.”
― Constance M. Cherry, The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services

“Why a Book about Worship Design? Vast numbers of Christian corporate worship services are designed and led weekly all around the world. They appear on every continent on the earth and in most languages under heaven. Indeed, “From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the LORD is [being] praised” (Ps. 113:3) somewhere among faithful Christians. Yet for as many services as we design, and for as many occasions of public worship as are offered, worship leaders still struggle with how to go about planning worship. Is it simply a matter of selecting the right songs to sing and programming the right “special music”? Is it a matter of shuffling the cards and laying them out in new configurations so as to intrigue worshipers from week to week? Do we adopt one tried-and-true order of service and stick with it, come what may? Or is worship design a free-for-all that requires little or no preparation, where the Spirit is expected to deliver the order of service on demand?”
― Constance M. Cherry, The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Faithful Services