Highly recommend for beginning and experienced pastors:
I first used this book for my own course work in seminary - now I recommend it to seminarians. In preparation for a course I teach, I picked up White's book and read through it again. Still a great tool!
Great Christian Worship book:
I used this book as an extra for my Christian worship class, and found that this biook is very good for the investigation of the history and evolution of worship in the church.
Wrong Again as Usual .:
Sorry Mr. White but one merely has to read The Bible to find out about Christian Worship. It's ALL outlined in John 6:53-56 & 1 Corithians 11. Not that any of those Bible Alone 2 Thess 2:15, Evangelical 1 Tim 2:2, Faith Alone James 2:17 types would ever care to learn and know the truth.
A Much Needed Book:
Someone in my church went to watch The Passion of The Christ recently. When he returned he said, "So that's what communion is all about." This is an extreme example, but do you know WHY your church worships in the way it does? or do you just worship that way because it feels good or because that's the way everybody wants to do it?
In INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN WORSHIP, James F. White presents a much needed theology of Christian Worship. This is a great companion book to, A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN... more info
