MAKERSPACE worship
MAKERSPACE worship
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What is MAKERSPACE worship?
What is MAKERSPACE worship?
MAKERSPACE worship starts from the assumption that worship is about:
orienting your thoughts and hearts in community towards God
Does community have to mean that everyone is “doing” the same thing? What if worship was defined by intent, duration, and proximity rather than imitation and performance?
We’re calling the idea that we’d like to try, “makerspace.” It involves a worship leader, who is equipped in terms of musical and facilitation abilities, and multiple stations or tools designed to help people “orient their thoughts and hearts towards God.” While there is music undergirding the worship time and providing a foundational narrative to the community’s time of worship, it is simultaneously being inflected by other “transcendental” practices: crafts, art, handwork, prayer, writing, reading, or silence.
The worship leader should be prepared to be singing alone -- although they should know that they aren’t alone. They should also be clear about the narrative they are developing with the songs they are choosing. They can feel free to use songs that aren’t typical “worship” songs, because it’s not absolutely essential that everyone be able to sing along. It may also be worthwhile to keep the number of instruments involved low so that people don’t feel awkward.
How does MAKERSPACE worship work?
How does MAKERSPACE worship work?
On a Sunday where we are doing Makerspace Worship, the room should be set up so that chairs are set up around tables. Each table may have 5-10 people at it (depending on how big the table is). On the table there may be paper, things to draw or write with, books that people can flip through. There may be tables that have more of a focus than others (i.e., maybe some tables have paints, etc., but others don’t).
The worship leader will open by explaining what is happening, talking about the theology of worship and affirming that what we are doing we will be doing together. People can choose to sing or not sing. The point of worship is to orient ourselves to God, so if you feel that you’re being led in one way or another in terms of how to worship, you should go with that.
The worship leader will then lead whoever is singing in a relatively typical time of worship. There may be more extended periods of music without singing -- but this would be up to the worship leader to decide. If there is explanation required to help participants understand the themes of the songs and how they relate to one another, the worship leader should make this clear.
An example Sunday...
An example Sunday...
The worship leader has chosen to focus on the theme of God’s love for us this Sunday. They have selected five songs that reflect this theme and organized them along with any other liturgy or readings in order to usher congregants through the narrative of worship. Prior to the service, tables have been set up with 5-10 chairs around each.
The songs that have been chosen are intended to reflect on the extent of God’s love, beginning with an evocation of God’s love in the midst of our sorrow (in a song that deliberately begs the question: how does he love us?) and continuing through to explore how wide and deep and broad is the love of God. The set closes with a focus on the primary place of God’s love in the cross and an opportunity to respond.
How He Loves Us
Read Ephesians 3:18
Reckless Love
How Deep the Father’s Love
The Love of God (Hymn)
At the Cross
While this is happening, there are books on the tables related to the love of God, there is paper and writing/colouring implements, a prayer space (not sure how to do that one), and other tools for making.
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