This Time with Feeling
Reimagining the Experience of Worship: Creating the Space for Personal and Communal Transformation
- Preaching & Worship
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
Are you seeking to renew your communal worship experience in ways that will bring new life and vitality to your community of faith? This Time with Feeling offers an accessible, informative balance of rationale, anecdotes, examples, and invitational prompts to reignite the fire of worship as a personal, emotional experience of the Divine. Worshipers are guided to pay attention to the world around them, as well as the ways that story, music, language, symbols, and ritual in worship may unleash God-encounters that shape belief and practice. Creating worship experiences that engage participants on an emotional level and defining those experiences in the context of the Christian story holds the potential for powerful individual and communal transformation. With a healthy balance of practical and theological reflection, as well as exercises that invite reader engagement, this book will stimulate meaningful personal reflection, dynamic group conversations, inspired participation in worship planning and leadership, and worship experiences that will enliven and grow congregations.
Endorsements (2)
“This Time with Feeling is that rare practical gift—a detailed reference with clear theological explanation and easy-to-use next-Sunday examples for clergy and lay worship leaders who want to shape worship as a heart experience rather than educational event, and a book for worshippers themselves to engage as equal partners in planning Sunday morning and special services. No insider language! The reflection questions alone invite newcomer and seasoned member to transformation.”
“Emotion and affect have a varying history in the Christian tradition, often held suspect by a post-Enlightenment reformed mindset. Tarolli gently and convincingly guides readers in allowing tradition and innovation to play together in a sensory-rich dance for the purposes of a more deeply felt, and thus transformative, experience of the Divine. In my view, the renewal of our churches depends in part on this conversation.”
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