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Ancient Fire: The Power of Christian Rituals in Contemporary Worship is unavailable, but you can change that!

The greatest challenge and responsibility in contemporary worship is distinguishing between the fire and the ashes—to stoke the fire of God’s presence while simultaneously disposing of the ashes of obsolete worship styles and practices. As contemporary worship moves from traditional to modern to postmodern, how can pastors and worship leaders be sure they are retaining what is essential to...

believe the rituals of the church that once carried the Ancient Fire have become archaic and incompatible with contemporary life, so they decide rituals are unnecessary and jettison them. There will be some pastors with greater wisdom, who solve the flickering fire problem by creating new ways of doing things through which the Holy Spirit can connect with contemporary worshipers. They do not want to lose the Ancient Fire, so they shape new wineskins that can contain the essence of the old and communicate
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