Universal Stories
Taken from Worship Together
author: Sandra Millar
contributor: SPCK - Sandra Millar
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Universal stories – it happens to us all
Creating all-age worship: the key components
Part 1: Worship Together
Creating worship that has the potential to engage everyone present needs structure and pattern, it needs to be multi-sensory, it needs to have moments of mystery, but perhaps above all else, it needs to connect with the lives of each person present. And the tool that allows this to happen is story. Story is one of those words, like myth, that has somewhat changed in its meaning. It’s easy to think ‘story’ is something fabricated and lightweight, placing it into direct contrast with the serious business of bearing witness to the truth about God, God’s people and God’s world. But a story is simply a vehicle. A story is a construction that enables a sequence of events, actions, words and ideas to be held together in a way that makes it comprehensible to others. We all tell stories every single day. Over a coffee with friends, someone will say, ‘Do you know what happened to me/my child/my neighbour this morning?’ and so the ‘story’ will begin, an account of an event which has been edited and formed into a means of communication...
Taken from Worship Together by Sandra Millar
Creating all-age worship: the key components
Part 1: Worship Together
Creating worship that has the potential to engage everyone present needs structure and pattern, it needs to be multi-sensory, it needs to have moments of mystery, but perhaps above all else, it needs to connect with the lives of each person present. And the tool that allows this to happen is story. Story is one of those words, like myth, that has somewhat changed in its meaning. It’s easy to think ‘story’ is something fabricated and lightweight, placing it into direct contrast with the serious business of bearing witness to the truth about God, God’s people and God’s world. But a story is simply a vehicle. A story is a construction that enables a sequence of events, actions, words and ideas to be held together in a way that makes it comprehensible to others. We all tell stories every single day. Over a coffee with friends, someone will say, ‘Do you know what happened to me/my child/my neighbour this morning?’ and so the ‘story’ will begin, an account of an event which has been edited and formed into a means of communication...
Taken from Worship Together by Sandra Millar
Publisher: SPCK - view more
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