on going resourecs and eZines

• Emergingchurch.info - Emergingchurch.info
• Next-Wave: Church and Culture - www.the-next-wave-ezine.info
• UM Center for Worship Resourcing - http://www.gbod.org/worship/ > emerging worship

teaching resources. handouts. history. magazine articles

• key concepts FOR the church that is emerging download

• a quick history of our story - historical conte download
  
  
• Trends in Worship - www.umcworship.org - this seven page resource address some of the history of worship, Liturgical Renewal, Seeker Service, Praise and Worship, Blended Worship, and Emerging Church Ethos and Worship. download (Great overview) - Powerpoint (1.1mb) Healthy Churches Houston January 29, 2005 Workshop prepared and led by Rev. Daniel Benedict
  
  
• Alternative Worship - www.pdox.org The baby boomers made worship relevant. Gen-Xers made it authentic. The next big shift could make worship non-linear, multisensory and art-driven. It’s called “alt.worship” and it’s emerging from an unlikely source - the global alternative Christian subculture. download
  

• The Basic Pattern of Worship & Planning scripture-based, context-sensitive worship
  (Adapted from: United Methodist Hymnal p2 & John Thornburg, Instructor in Worship, Perkins School of Theology) download

• Five Streams of the Emerging Church: Key elements of the most controversial and misunderstood movement in the church today. by Scot McKnight. Christianity Today (posted 1/19/2007) download

• Emergent church conference explores what movement is, isn’t (review of the Jan. 2007 Mainline Emergent Conference. by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook national reporter download

• Jacobs Well Church (Pr. Tim Keel) has been written up in Christian Century. download

• The Emerging Church, PBS.org - Religion & Ethics COVER STORY: Part One July 8, 2005 Episode no. 845 download

• The Emergent Mystique - Christianity Today, November 2004 download

• Does Evangelical Theology Have a Future? - Christianity Today download

• The Emerging Church, by D. A Carson Modern Reformation Magazine, Faith a La Carte July - August 2005 Issue, Vol. 14.4 download

• The Emergent matrix: a new kind of church - Christian Century, Nov 30, 2004 by Scott Bader-Saye download
  

alt.Worship ~ theology, liturgy

• A Generous Orthodoxy - Brian D. Mclaren
• A New Kind Of Christian - Brian D. Mclaren
• The Church In Emerging Culture - Edited By Leonard Sweet (united methodist author)
• The Emerging Church - Postmodern church explained for the mainstream US context By Dan Kimball
• Reimagining Spiritual Formation: : A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church -
  Doug Pagitt (from the community of Solomon's Porch - (Minneapolis MN)
• Becoming Conversant With The Emerging Church - D.A. Carson
• Emerging Churches - Creating Christian Community In Postmodern Cultures By Eddie Gibbs And Ryan Bolger
• The Practicing Congregation - Imagining A New Old Church By Diana Butler Bass
• Ancient-Future Faith - Robert Webber
• The Seeker's Way - Cultivating The Longings Of A Spiritual Life By Dave Fleming
• The Rise and Fall of the Nine O'clock Service -- How a famous experiment went tragically
  wrong -- Roland Howard
• Refreshing Worship - An accessible guide to the whys and hows of Alternative Worship,
  from the originators of Labyrinth - Kevin & Brian Draper
• Virtual Faith - The spirituality of Generation X, Tom Beaudoin

• resource
• Alternative Worship - US edition with new foreword by Sally Morgenthaler Jonny Baker & Doug Gay with Jenny Brown
• Book of Uncommon Prayer - Steve Case (Prayer, Responsive reading, Worship Services, and a great CD with a dance Eucharist liturgy, a youth minstry resource)
• Multi-Sensory Church - Ready-to-use ideas for creative worship using, art, liturgies, rituals
  Sue Wallace . Scripture Union
• Multi-Sensory Prayer - Creative prayer ideas using, art, the body, the senses
  Sue Wallace . Scripture Union
• Soul Shaper - Tony Jones - Exploring spirituality & contemplative practices in youth ministry
• The Sacred Way - Tony Jones (Adult version of soul shaper) Exploring spirituality & contemplative practices.
• Creative Ways to Design Worship Together by Marcia McFee (Planning worship resource)