Harold Best, Chip Stam & Mike Cosper – The Second Roundtable Discussion On Worship & Congregational Singing

Dr. Harold Best (former dean of Wheaton College, and author of Unceasing Worship and Music Through The Eyes Of Faith) and professor Carl “Chip” Stam (director of the Institute For Christian Worship at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) recently came to the Sojourn Music studio to sit for a series of eight short “round table” discussions with our Worship & Arts Pastor, Mike Cosper.

In this short video you’ll see Best, Stam and Cosper discussing:

• the power of putting a small element in the right place
• claiming “music is for God’s glory” as an excuse for evil
• the trouble with letting our art take control of us
• dangers in giving in to a congregation’s desire for heightened emotional experiences
• can music “usher us in” to the Holy of Holies?

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.

On the following six Wednesday’s, we’ll publish sessions three 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 of the legitimacy of offering our emotions to the Lord, the danger of equating good music with the Holy Spirit, “music” as a servant of the Word, a secret that Harold Best has learned for appreciating new music, and more.

VIEW PART ONE OF HAROLD BEST, CHIP STAM AND MIKE COSPER ROUNDTABLE 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 visit his Worship Quote of the Week site (wqotw.org)