Harold Best, Chip Stam, Mike Cosper: Session Three On Worship In The Contemporary Church

by Bobby Gilles on March 18, 2009

Dr. Harold Best (author of Unceasing Worship and Music Through The Eyes Of Faith) and professor Carl “Chip” Stam (Professor of Church Music and Worship at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) recently came to the Sojourn Music studio to sit for a series of eight short discussions with Sojourn Worship & Arts Pastor, Mike Cosper.

In this video you’ll see Best, Stam and Cosper talking about:

  • the legitimacy of offering our emotions to Christ in worship
  • the trouble with equating good music with a moving of the Holy Spirit
  • “music” as servant to the Word
  • a secret that Harold Best has learned for appreciating music that sounds foreign or distasteful to you, and more.

Watch it in the video player above or download it for free from our podcast, Sojournmusic.com Radio, available through iTunes and other podcast directories.

Over the next five Wednesday’s, we’ll publish sessions four through eight (averaging around ten minutes each) in this series on worship and music for the church, from Dr. Harold Best, Professor Chip Stam and Pastor Mike Cosper.  Next week’s installment features a discussion about the nature of beauty, what the Bible means by the “beauty of holiness,” the place for arts in the church and the drive for “excellence” in music ministry.

VIEW PART ONE OF HAROLD BEST, CHIP STAM AND MIKE COSPER ROUNDTABLE HERE

VIEW PART TWO OF THIS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON WORSHIP HERE

filmed at Sojourn Music recording studio, Tuesday, 10/14/2008

Buy Dr. Harold Best’s Unceasing Worship

Visit Pastor Mike’s theopensourcebook.org for lots of free congregational readings and worship resources.

Visit Professor Stam’s Institute For Christian Worship and his Worship Quote of the Week site (wqotw.org)

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