This course provides training in how to prepare and lead Christian worship, enabling people to serve their local churches faithfully and well.
This six-week course includes course materials, six online tutorials and recorded lectures on the platform MyAberdeen. Learners will submit a short assessment piece at the end of the course which involves developing an Order of Service and 500-word reflective essay on your experience of the course.
Learning outcomes
- Introduction to Christian Worship
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Learners will explore attitudes to worship and why people worship
- The history and theology of worship
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Learners shall consider the history and theology of worship in the Bible, the Christian tradition and contemporary world
- The Lectionary, seasons of the year and flow of worship services
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In week 3 learners will explore the following topics:
- The Lectionary
- Examine the seasons of the Christian year
- Discuss orders of service
- Reading God's Word
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The three aims in week four include:
- How to read God's word in worship
- Leading prayer in worship
- Choosing hymns and songs for worship
- Engaging styles, intergenerational services and the future of worship
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Learners will explore the following themes:
- Different worship styles
- Generational disconnections and intergenerational services
- The role of technology
- Church worship in the future
- Creating and critiquing orders of service
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Learners will finish the course by learning about orders of service and planning worship.