May 28, 2018: Symbolic Language

Robert E. Webber

Corporate worship is always something we do as a congregation. We do not wish it to become something that we watch others do. . . . Congregations that have been willing to take the risk of restoring symbolic language have found an increased aliveness to their worship. Learning to respond to God with hands and feet, eyes and ears, nose and mouth provides a break with an intellectual, head-oriented, passive, and even stuffy approach to worship.


-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996), 81.

 

Dr. Hans Boersma Seminar: Enchanted Worship, June 18-19, 2018 at IWS.

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Alumni Director, Practicum Professor, and DWS graduate.

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