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Worship And The Art Of Remembering

Our culture is obsessed with the future, convinced that the answers to life’s biggest questions – identity, call, purpose, possibility – lie ahead of us. But what if the opposite is true? What if wholeness is found not in anticipating the next experience or achievement, but in remembering the past? In worship, we enact God’s saving deeds throughout history, bringing the past into the present. Remembering who God is and what He has done provides meaning and belonging. So lead your congregation into the transformative power of remembrance. Worship is not about novelty or relevance, but about grounding our fleeting lives in the eternal story of God’s faithfulness. The future cannot answer our deepest longings – that power resides in reconnecting with our story, with our Source who was, is and will always be.

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Don Chapman

Don Chapman‘s passion is for the Church, music and technology, and he blends all three into resource websites devoted to contemporary worship: Hymncharts.com and Worshipflow.com. He’s the editor of the weekly Worshipideas.com newsletter that’s read by over 30,000 worship leaders across the world.

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