Abstract
Since 1970, seeker services and praise-and-worship services have become increasingly influential among mainline churches. These services attract mainliners with their potential to stimulate evangelism and spiritual growth. The seeker-service strategy raises important questions about the relationship of worship and evangelism and about the place of popular culture, multimedia technology, and the arts in worship. Praise-and-worship services challenge mainliners to rethink the range of physical and emotional expression in worship and to think differently about the role of music in worship. We can already see the convergence of elements from these two approaches and from historic liturgy that are custom-fitted to meet the needs of individual congregations.
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