Religion and Republic: The American Circumstance Book

A good book for a worship media team to read together. It takes some basic principles of worship and helps in the design, delivery, and evaluation of worship experiences. It's greatest benefit is readability. But like all similar books, it presents a useful model, which in time can grow stale.
If you have almost no intentionality in your worship planning, this book is a helpful resource. One might consider reading something like Worship is a Verb by Robert Webber first, to get a big picture of worship. Then, this book helps to bring some contemporary variety to basic worship principles. It uses The Homiletical Plot by Eugene Lowry (a narrative preaching book) as a guide to the design of narrative-like worship experiences.
Worship needs to have some flow and that is the best contribution of this book, (originally a cooperative effort for a campus church and a preaching and worship course). Sticking to only this design will produce similar results as other predictable patterns. But it remains useful as a way to bring variety to worship in a purposeful way. Once you've mastered these principles, they can be applied many ways. I would give it 3.5 stars if I could see how to give 1/2 a star!