Engaging in Worship Forming the next generation

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Engaging in WorshipForming the next generation
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Why does worship matter?
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Why does worship matter?

• Worship forms and changes us

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Why does worship matter?

• Worship builds
• community

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Why does worship matter?

• Worship is the basis of mission

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Why does worship matter?

• Worship forms and changes us
• Worship builds community
• Worship is the basis of mission

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Collective Worship in Schools
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Collective Worship in Schools

• Seize the moment!

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Collective Worship in Schools

• Seize the moment!
• Liturgical Commission / National Society joint
  venture

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Engaging in WorshipForming the next generation
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Collective Worship in Schools

• The nuts and bolts

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Engagement with the tradition
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Engagement with the tradition

• Core texts

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Engagement with the tradition

• Texts in common
• A reservoir of texts
• What might they be?

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Engagement with the tradition

• Liturgical structure

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Engagement with the tradition

• Liturgical structure
• Basic 4-fold structure..

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Gathering
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Engaging with the Word
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Responding
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Being sent
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Forming in the Faith
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Bridging School / Church

• Ian Dewar,
• Common Worship
• in Church Schools
• (Grove Books,
• Worship Series,
• W174)

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Gathering

• An opening response
• God is good all the time.
• All the time God is good.
• This is the day the Lord has made.
• let us rejoice and be glad in it.

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Engaging

• Tell a story from the Bible with dance movement
• Explore the story behind a Christian festival
• Explore a topical issue from a Christian
  perspective

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Responding

• Pray a prayer together
• Respond to the theme by singing a song together
• Spend time in quiet reflection (perhaps listening
  to music)

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Being Sent

• Say the Grace
• A dismissal Go in peace to love and serve.
• Sing a sending out song

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Engagement with the tradition

• Liturgical structure

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Engagement with the tradition

• Song

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Song

• The one who sings prays twice
• Augustine of Hippo

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Song

• What we sing, we remember
• John Bell

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Song

• Have we lost the plot?

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Song

• Rediscovering the lost art..

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Song

• Rediscovering the lost art..

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Song

• A core
• repertoire
• for church
• schools

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Engagement with the tradition

• Core texts
• Structure
• Song

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What sort of worship?

• locally authentic

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What sort of worship?

• locally authentic
• Eucharist?

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Authorized Structures

• A SERVICE OF THE WORD with a CELEBRATION OF HOLY
  COMMUNION

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A SERVICE OF THE WORD with a CELEBRATION OF HOLY
COMMUNION

• Preparation
• The people and the priest
•    greet each other in the Lord's name
•  confess their sins and are assured of God's
  forgiveness
•  keep silence and pray a Collect

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A SERVICE OF THE WORD with a CELEBRATION OF HOLY
COMMUNION

• The Liturgy of the Word
• The people and the priest
•  proclaim and respond to the word of God
• Prayers
• The people and the priest
•  pray for the Church and the world

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A SERVICE OF THE WORD with a CELEBRATION OF HOLY
COMMUNION

• The Liturgy of the Sacrament
• The people and the priest
•  exchange the Peace
•   prepare the table
•  pray the Eucharistic Prayer
•  break the bread
• receive Holy Communion

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A SERVICE OF THE WORD with a CELEBRATION OF HOLY
COMMUNION

• The Dismissal
• The people and the priest
•  depart with God's blessing.

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What sort of worship?

• locally authentic
• Eucharist
• Initiation?

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• Seize
• the
• kairos
• moment

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Collective WorshipForming the next generation