Mark Peterson of Holy Trinity, Adelaide Australia offers some observations about music and worship from the perspective of the ‘trellis’ and ‘vine’ perspective of church life.
In the article Peterson considers music in worship from the perspectives of preparation and presentation, as well as its content and purpose in usage. There are both trellis and vine perspectives.
Trouble starts when we come to depend on the trellis aspects to bring growth instead of the vine considerations.
All of this expressed with his usual thoughtfulness and pastoral consideration.
From Peterson:
I was recently asked whether music ministry is a “ministry of the word” or a “ministry that supports the ministry of the word”. Interesting question! There’s quite a bit behind the question, which I’ll get to. But I should clarify at the outset that by “the word”, the questioner was referring to the Bible and the message of salvation contained within it, not just to a general sense of word versus musical note, or visual image.
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