The Source: A Resource Guide for Using Creative Arts in Church Services - Softcover

Dyer, Scott

 
9780310500216: The Source: A Resource Guide for Using Creative Arts in Church Services
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0310500214 ISBN 13: 9780310500216
Publisher: Zondervan, 1995

Synopsis

PRESENTING THE SOURCE - the first comprehensive guide to choosing creative material for contemporary church services. The Source gives worship planners and creative directors a quick, topical reference that helps them relate sermon topics, drama, music, and movie clips to a unifying theme. Using The Source, you’ll know immediately if a song is right for a seeker-sensitive service. You’ll know which drama to choose for humor, a serious mood, mime, or a combination. Movie clips? They’re measured down to the second -- so you’ll know exactly where to begin a scene and where to end it. Designed to be a supplement to your own creative process, The Source also provides blanks for your ideas, allowing you to customize it to your church's unique needs. Complete with a clear, thorough user’s guide, this one-stop resource for effective programming includes more than 130 topics. Evangelism, decision making, abortion, the character of God--whatever your focus is, you’ll find it under these major headings: - Christian Life Issues - Holidays and Special Services - Identity of God - Life Issues - Relationship with God - Social Issues - Seeker Issues - Relationships -- Liberally punctuated with Programming Tips -- useful ideas for and about creative ministers and programming -- The Source will help you save time, money, and energy . . . and give you an incredibly effective tool for using the creative arts to their full, powerful potential.

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PRESENTING THE SOURCE - the first comprehensive guide to choosing creative material for contemporary church services. The Source gives worship planners and creative directors a quick, topical reference that helps them relate sermon topics, drama, music, and movie clips to a unifying theme. Using The Source, you ll know immediately if a song is right for a seeker-sensitive service. You ll know which drama to choose for humor, a serious mood, mime, or a combination. Movie clips? They re measured down to the second -- so you ll know exactly where to begin a scene and where to end it. Designed to be a supplement to your own creative process, The Source also provides blanks for your ideas, allowing you to customize it to your church's unique needs. Complete with a clear, thorough user s guide, this one-stop resource for effective programming includes more than 130 topics. Evangelism, decision making, abortion, the character of God--whatever your focus is, you ll find it under these major headings: - Christian Life Issues - Holidays and Special Services - Identity of God - Life Issues - Relationship with God - Social Issues - Seeker Issues - Relationships -- Liberally punctuated with Programming Tips -- useful ideas for and about creative ministers and programming -- The Source will help you save time, money, and energy . . . and give you an incredibly effective tool for using the creative arts to their full, powerful potential.

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Publisher
Zondervan
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0310500214
ISBN 13 
9780310500216
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
410