Encountering God Together

Does Sunday morning leave you with a sense of awe? It should!

Church services are an opportunity to gather together and encounter God.

More than that, God builds the church through us as we use his gifts to minister

to one another.

Yet . . . have you experienced services that downplayed their focus on God’s

presence to emphasize fellowship and ministry? Or ones whose “worship” had

little sense of believers’ coming together to minister to one another? How do we

regain the right balance in our services?

Here David Peterson will teach you:

• The biblical foundations of

worship

• The meaning and purpose of

gathering together

• What acceptable worship is

• How to plan corporate worship

biblically and creatively

• A true measure of church growth

• How we edify the church

• Patterns and varieties of service

models

• How to structure each service to

take worshipers on a meaningful

journey together


“Biblical, practical, and insightful guidelines for thinking through how God wants us

to meet with him as we meet with each other. . . . And as you’d expect, the beauty

and power of Christ’s atoning work shine throughout. Tight in all the right places and

encouraging biblically informed freedom everywhere else, Encountering God Together

should be read by anyone involved in planning or leading gatherings of the church.”

—BOB KAUFLIN, Director, Sovereign Grace Music, Louisville, Kentucky