Harold Best, Chip Stam and Mike Cosper: Episode 4 On Worship In The Modern Church

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 10-minute video you’ll see Best, Stam and Cosper talking about:

• the nature of beauty
• what the Bible means by the “beauty of holiness”
• the place for arts in the church
• the drive for “excellence” in music ministry

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.

In the remaining four Wednesday’s, we’ll publish sessions five 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 focuses on the big difference between “pretty” and “beautiful,” the artifactual beauty of suffering and the work of artists like Cormac McCarthy, and the problem of evangelicals who act as if sin is something that is only dealt with at conversion, meaning there is no more need for confession and repentance in our worship.

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

VIEW PART TWO OF THIS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON WORSHIP HERE

VIEW PART THREE 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)