Calls to Worship, Invocations, and Benedictions

Highly organized and practical, this resource for worship leaders provides hundreds of calls to worship, invocations, and benedictions and over one hundred optional congregational responses, along with seasonal and topical suggestions for worship planning. Each liturgical element is sourced or adapted directly from the Bible and indexed by topic. Quickly find appropriate passages, and draw on a broader range of Scripture in your worship services. This useful handbook also includes an overview of how churches have historically incorporated these elements into worship, with particular attention paid to early Reformation liturgies. Whether you are new to this pattern of worship or have made it a part of your services for years, you will be helped and encouraged.

Publisher: P & R
Type: Hardback
ISBN: 9781629959115

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Ryan Kelly is an associate professor of music at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where he directs several choirs and teaches courses in conducting and choral music. An experienced church musician and organist, he is also director of music at Proclamation Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

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“Experienced pastors know that every element in the worship service matters; not least of these elements are the calls to worship, invocations, and benedictions with which gathered worship begins and ends. Ryan Kelly has performed a great service by organizing material from Scripture and church history to sharpen and uplift pastors' leadership of public worship. It will not take long for my copy of this useful book to become well-worn! I highly commend it to all ministers of the gospel.” Richard D. Phillips, Senior Minister, Second Presbyterian Church, Greenville, South Carolina