This Time with Feeling: Reimagining the Experience of Worship: Creating the Space for Personal and Communal Transformation - Paperback

by Susan Tarolli (Author)

Are you seeking to renew your communal worship experience in ways that will bring new life and vitality to your community of faith? This Time with Feeling offers an accessible, informative balance of rationale, anecdotes, examples, and invitational prompts to reignite the fire of worship as a personal, emotional experience of the Divine. Worshipers are guided to pay attention to the world around them, as well as the ways that story, music, language, symbols, and ritual in worship may unleash God-encounters that shape belief and practice. Creating worship experiences that engage participants on an emotional level and defining those experiences in the context of the Christian story holds the potential for powerful individual and communal transformation. With a healthy balance of practical and theological reflection, as well as exercises that invite reader engagement, this book will stimulate meaningful personal reflection, dynamic group conversations, inspired participation in worship planning and leadership, and worship experiences that will enliven and grow congregations.

Author Biography

Susan Tarolli is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, having served as a settled pastor, regional minister, and intentional interim minister for more than twenty-five years. She works with congregations to create dynamic, engaging worship experiences that are rooted in the traditional gospel story, with a relevant and moving reach into the hearts of twenty-first-century worshipers. She currently serves a UCC congregation in Greenfield, Massachusetts.