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A Look at the Biblical Basis of Corporate Worship

Living Worship’s curriculum project for the past year has been completed and is in first draft form. The study, titled "Why Do We Gather?", looks at the biblical basis for corporate worship. 30 lessons are broken into 5 sections.of 6 lessons each. We gather:

• in response to God’s revelation
• to proclaim that He is of ultimate worth
• to respond to Him with each other
• to commit to a life of worship with each other
• to show forth the reality of God to the world.

Contributors to the study are Bill Briggs, worship pastor at Bethlehem Church and PowerSurge Worship Ministries board member, Keith Morris, worship pastor at Blairstown Evangelical Free Church, Jeff Ridgeway, associate pastor at Hope Presbyterian Church and Greg Gaffney, executive director of PowerSurge Worship Ministries.

The study is being put into student and teacher handbooks for broader distribution. Copies may be obtained by contacting PowerSurge Worship Ministries.

The study was the basis of two Living Worship Insight, Impact and Innovation gatherings, has been used for training a short term missions team going to Brazil, a bible study composed of men from four different churches, and as devotions for some of the Living Worship members home church worship ministries.

© 2005 PowerSurge Worship Ministries