Reviews for Description of H. R. 1085, to enact Title 36, United States Code, "Patriotic and national observances, ceremonies, and organizations."

The average rating for Description of H. R. 1085, to enact Title 36, United States Code, "Patriotic and national observances, ceremonies, and organizations." based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-01-16 00:00:00 Kent Serg Written in the mid-90's and in another continent, this book is a real mixed back for this Aussie. Morgenthaler critiques 1990's 'Baby Boomer' seeker sensitive churches, arguing that spiritual seekers can find God in a genuine worship service rather than a canned, seeker-targeted experience. While true, so much of what she writes is out of date as reaching boomers is no longer the big issue for most of the churches I know - they still like Boomers, but reaching 'Millennials' (don't you just love labels) is the challenge. She has some concern with the New Age, which is pretty much passe now. She does devote one chapter to interviewing three buster (Gen-X) worship leaders, but things have moved on and it's not a particularly enlightening chapter. And I'm not sure that a lot of the church-culture issues, even in the 90's, were so relevant to Australia. All that said, it does have some good things to say. Things like 'worship is for the spiritually hungry' (in contrast to those who say worship makes no sense to unbelievers). She helpfully critiques the overly head-oriented but often doctrinally empty emphasis of many Evangelical churches. We need to worship in spirit and truth. True worship is God focused, spiritually affective, and grounded in Scriptural truth. Chapter 4 on defining relationship and how this applies to worship, and chapter 5 on rethinking cultural relevance were particularly good. In fact, some of her critique in chapter 6 is still very relevant. In chapter 5 she suggests that meaningful relationship consists of presence, knowledge, vulnerability and interaction. What a great approach to worship! Chapter 6 suggests something that has taken hold of many emerging churches - rediscovering older traditions and repackaging them for a contemporary culture. She suggests our sterile worship spaces may not be so helpful, and we need to approach worship from a more creative, multi-sensory perspective. Despite these gems, I'm not sure this book is really worth the time. I notice though that the book is still in print, so it's obviously meeting a need somewhere, but I can't recommend it to Aussies. Two stars = it's OK.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-03 00:00:00 David Minor Unbelievers will draw conclusions from what they see in our worship services as well as what they do not see. Is there an effective way to worship, and are we actually doing it? Worship Evangelism requires an unpacking of this paradigm. The author believes that real worship is evangelism. Paul also believes that our worship services can greatly impact unbelievers to want to share the faith we have (read 1 Corinthians 14:23-25). There is much more in this book to unpack.