Posts tagged ‘bible’
A must read book for multicultural worship ministry
I remember when I started in multicultural worship ministry in 2005 I was searching all over the place to find books to encourage me in my journey. I’ve been blessed by United by Faith, Let the Nations be Glad, Foreign to Familiar, and many others.
(All of my recommendations can be found on Amazon.com.)
However, the book that has had the most impact in my life, especially as I get more involved with multicultural worship ministry is the BIBLE.
God’s Word has insight into what multicultural worship is about. God’s Word is full of stories and people from different backgrounds, ethnicities, gender, and social status. God’s Word is what will make the biggest impact in the multicultural worship movement.
I’m not saying you can’t read those other books because we need encouragement and wisdom from other believers. However, I have seen God make the biggest impact on our worship team when we’ve studied the Word together.
In the past year I’ve tried to go through two different books with the team. Both times I felt like it left us with more questions than answers. Not that this is a bad thing, but again, I saw the team grow the most when we went through the Bible together.
Remember, the reason why we’re pursuing a multicultural church and worshiping together with people of all nations is because it’s at the heart of God, which is found in His Word and in prayer. We just need to awaken to that truth by allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us as we journey together.
Blog post by Peter Kihyun Park
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Reading the bible accurately
Are you reading the bible accurately or are you bias?
Have you ever been bias for someone? Recently I was telling a friend of mine who lives in Portland about a problem I was having in church. He listened and he gave me some advice.
But he pointed out that he was bias for me, meaning he could only base his advice from my perspective. There would be no way he could know the full picture unless he interviewed people in the church or he spent some time here in Minnesota.
Reading the bible accurately with a commentary
If you haven’t heard, I’ve teamed up with a friend of mine from church to do an in-depth study on 1 & 2 Corinthians. Grant is going to balance me out a bit and help me develop some solid bible studies for our E.M.W. Training Program. He went to school for biblical studies after all.
When we met about a week ago he gave me some advice as we were talking through our plan to develop this bible study. Grant told me to make sure I read both the bible and a commentary on a regular basis as we proceeded on. It was help with reading the bible accurately.
How is a commentary going to help with reading the bible accurately?
Well, he went on to say that when we look for themes in the bible, like the multicultural church or multicultural worship, we can end up reading into the text. Meaning…we end up interpreting the bible the way we want to see it.
I can see the danger in that. When I’ve taken the time to develop some other studies I have several people take a look at it. I do this because I don’t want to be bias towards multicultural worship, even though I’m very passionate about it.
What else does reading the bible accurately have to with multicultural worship?
It is so important to take the time to find songs from different cultures and find musicians from different cultures. But we can’t forget about the other stuff that’s in the bible.
I mean things like making sure we are putting good solid people on our worship team with biblical standards versus putting certain people in because they can play a different style or are ethnic.
I just want to encourage you to be careful when you pursue multicultural worship to make sure you’re reading the bible accurately and are reminded of what else there is to living out the gospel in your life.
Are there some good bible commentaries that you enjoy using while reading the bible? Let us know about it.
Share your story and your life…
Sincerely,
Peter Park
Blogger/Worship Leader/Speaker
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Recommended blog post, which goes along with reading the bible accurately:
Do not judge
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