The Music Architect
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Preaching & Worship
- Publisher: Baker Academic (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2016
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Publisher's Description
Guidance for Leaders Seeking a Richer Way to Employ Worship MusicWorship expert Constance Cherry offers comprehensive guidance to Christian leaders seeking a deeper, richer way to employ worship music in engaging ways for twenty-first-century worshipers. Following Cherry's successful book The Worship Architect, this work helps Christian leaders think theologically and act pastorally about worship music in their churches. It addresses larger issues beyond the surface struggles of musical styles and provides tools to critically evaluate worship songs. The book is applicable to all Christian traditions and worship styles and is well suited to both the classroom and the local church. Each chapter concludes with suggested practical exercises, recommended reading, and basic vocabulary terms.
Endorsements (3)
“The twenty-first century is the post–worship war era. It is an era where an unsettling divide shaped by the desire for tradition or the pressing need for relevance reveals itself through Christian worship expressions. Oftentimes, this tension manifests itself in the choice of music used for corporate worship. Without a doubt, music making has a significant role in realizing Christian worship, a role comparable to ritual actions and the art of rhetoric in earlier eras. To that end, Constance Cherry in The Music Architect has strategically and helpfully unpacked the purpose, functions, and implications of music making in the context of worship in our day. Shaped by Cherry’s overarching concern for leadership formation in enabling congregational singing, this book offers much guidance to those who are preparing to serve or are already serving in the fields of worship and sacred music. It is a timely gift for all of us who are in the forefront of nurturing God’s people in song.”
“Constance Cherry has given the church and its leaders a gift: a book that the church needs. She has successfully repositioned discussions of the church’s music to be theologically grounded, liturgically functional, spiritually formative, and congregationally conceived. Along the way she provides practical insights for choosing songs, engaging congregants, establishing flow, and creating vision. Cherry’s contribution to congregational song provides the church a foundational source that it has been missing. Her work has resituated the discussion of congregational music by offering music leaders, worship leaders, pastors, congregants, and scholars a new place to restart this much-needed conversation. This book is a must-read for all who are involved in music and worship ministry. It will shape the thoughts and practices of the next generation.”
“I can’t think of anyone more qualified to teach and write about the connection between worship and music than Constance Cherry. The Music Architect is a must-read for anyone wanting to think and minister on a deeper level. Her thoughts on being a pastoral musician as well as her insights on spiritual formation in worship are truly trailblazing.”
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