Exploring the Worship Spectrum

Six different writers each present a chapter on their particular worship–running the gamut from formal liturgical, to charismatic, to emerging worship. Each chapter is followed by short commentaries by the other writers providing a variety of perspectives on each worship style. What emerges is a fascinating conversation that doesn’t try to convert you to one particular style of worship, but broadens your mind to the inherent worth of different types of worship. A good read. YouthWorker Journal

Paul A. Basden (PhD, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) is one of the senior pastors at Preston Trail Community Church in Frisco, Texas. He has also served as pastor of other churches in Alabama and Texas and as an adjunct professor at Beeson Divinity School. He is a graduate of Baylor University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and the author of The Worship Maze. Harold M. Best (DSM, Union Theological Seminary) is emeritus dean/professor of music of the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. Stanley N. Gundry is senior vice president and editor-in-chief of the book group at Zondervan. With more than thirty-five years of teaching, pastoring, and publishing experience, he is the author or coauthor of numerous books and a contributor to numerous periodicals. Joe Horness (BA, Trinity College) is worship director at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, where he has been on staff since 1981. Robert Webber is Myers Professor of Ministry at Northern Seminary in Lombard, Illinois; president of the Institute for Worship Studies, a long-distance graduate school located in Orange Park, Florida; and professor of theology emeritus at Wheaton College. He is the author of more than forty books including the Ancient-Future Faith series published by Baker Books. Don Williams (PhD, Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary) is founding pastor of the Coast Vineyard Christian Fellowship in California and has taught at Claremont McKenna College and Fuller Theological Seminary. Paul F. M. Zahl (ThD, University of Tubingen) is dean of Cathedral Church of the Advent (Episcopal) in Birmingham, Alabama.