Description
A collection of worship resources including calls to worship, all-age prayers and blessings, seasonal litugies, drama scripts, prayer stations and eleven original worship songs. Collated from worship gatherings in a range of diverse settings over a couple of decades. Creative, contemporary, participatory, engaging.
From the Introduction:
Here is a book of invitations to deeper water – to open a strange story and live in its pages, to learn to sing a new song in a different land, to be seared by a burning bush, to board a weathered boat and push out into the depths. Invitations that invoke and evoke the Spirit. Jesus calls his followers to go with him to the depths, to learn from experience and encounter. The Gospels don’t read like a weekly liturgy. More like a travel journal. “Dear diary, we were sent out today for two weeks without map or money.”
Why “immersive worship”? Because modern Protestants tend to flatten worship in terms of time, space, word, and even music. We have a predictable sequence of worship elements to complete in 59 minutes. There can be little variation…
Immersive worship seeks to go beyond the predictable. Not that rhythm and repetition can’t be good. That’s not the point. Worship rarely needs more order. It usually needs more imagination. Have you ever been to a movie and became so immersed in the film that you became a part of it? Have you ever stumbled out of a cinema, blinking, to find that the real world seemed less important than the epic story in which you had been deeply submerged? When have you not wanted a worship service to end? When have you felt lost in wonder, touched by the holy?
The book was originally published by Mediacom Education in 2020 and is now published by me.
DOWNLOAD Deeper Water Introduction (130Kb PDF)
DOWNLOAD Table of Contents (100kb PDF)
The music is all licenced with CCLI for use in worship, including streaming.
Previews of many of the eleven original songs are available here on Vimeo.
