Book: Mission Driven Worship

Mission Driven Worship: Helping your changing church celebrate God by Handt Hanson

Handt Hanson is the worship leader at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Burnsville.

From the Back Cover
Reveal the Passion and Personality of Your Church Through Worship. Your church's worship says a lot about your church. In Mission-Driven Worship, you'll learn from one of America's leading churches how your church worship can be a dynamic experience in the life of your congregation and a powerful draw for guests. A powerful catalyst for passionately communicating your church's vision. Worship authority Hanson offers ideas and insights that are tried, tested and proven successful-and shows how to create a worship environment that's right for your church.
Mission-Driven Worship will help you:
*Examine your church's current approach to worship.
*Assess and evaluate how you communicate your church mission and vision.
*Develop a worship strategy that builds a bridge between what you've done in the past to being mission-driven.
*Finalize your strategy with creative ways to make your worship more outreach- focused.



Review from www.roundaboutthechurch.com
Their favorite features:

• focus - not on the size of a church, but rather "the degree of passion, intentionality and creativity given to worship planning"
• excellent information to help you develop a plan for worship
• emphasis on building community in each area involved in worship
• emphasis on developing and "feeding" small cell groups rather than a big "organization" for true effectiveness
• focus on "learning" rather than "teaching"
• building blocks for worship - beliefs, values, mission, vision, outcomes
  checkpoints and summary points at the end of each chapter
• requirements for quality worship
• do's and don'ts - helpful information
• look at church of the future
• value of worship teams
• five things to consider in selecting music
• sample worship format

Although this book is not about youth worship - it applies to worship for all ages - the information included in this book is extremely valuable and will enable you to develop a truly effective and real worship. Extremely well done Handt and Group Publishing!