Better Art! Greater Accessibility!

WHY WORSHIP THAT FORMS THE CHURCH DEMANDS BOTH

One crowd says worship expression needs to be better art (greater complexity for meaningful reach to today's world). Another crowd says worship must maintain greater accessibility (broader, meaningful service to the Church). Both crowds are right – and both need a good talking to.

The creative expressions of worship in our time are part of the Great Art of the Church, and therefore must never been minimized – even when critiquing today's worship subcultures. To diminish their necessity, vitality, or centrality to spiritual life – in its deepest human forms – is to lose our way in every single conversation about the topic.