TITLE: The Worship Architect
AUTHOR: Constance M. Cherry
PUBLISHER: Baker Academic
DATE PUBLISHED: 2010

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There are many books available on the topic of worship today, but few provide a comprehensive, practical method for worship design. Constance M. Cherry, a worship professor and practitioner, provides worship leaders with credible blueprint plans for successfully designing worship services that foster meaningful conversation with God and the gathered community.

Readers will learn how to create services that are faithful to Scripture, historically conscious, relevant to God, Christ-centered, and engaging for worshipers of all ages in the twenty-first century.

The book sets forth basic principles concerning worship design and demonstrates how these principles are conducive to virtually any style of worship practiced today in a myriad of Christian communities. It will also work well as a guide for worship-planning teams in local churches and provide insight for worship students, pastors, and church leaders involved in congregational worship.

"Cherry shows us that pastoral theology and the practice of theology is never an 'either-or,' but always a 'both-and.' Let's follow her lead and rediscover the unity that exists between the two."
--Robert E. Webber, author of Ancient-Future Worship