Isaiah Six is the first to respond to this week's "call to posts," and it's an exhaustive review! You can read the article for the punchline, but I love his setup:
But just because something might be proposed or published by the SBC or its publishing arm, LifeWay Christian Resources, doesn't mean I fall all over myself to buy it and use it. In fact, I'm often skeptical because sometimes we just flat out get it wrong.
Any more Proverbs 27:2 folks out there?
Baptist Hymnal?
Worship Hymnal?
Large print edition?
Pulpit edition?
If you've called, emailed, ordered online or walked into a LifeWay store and gotten your copy, we want to hear your reaction! Good, bad or ugly.
Post a review on your personal blog (or your church's site... or whatever Internet site that you like) and we'll link to you from our blog. There may even be something in it for you... Post a link to your review in the comments section of this post so we know to look for it.
Yes, it's true, Baptist Hymnal and The Worship Hymnal are shipping ahead of schedule. Contact LifeWay to get your very own!
One of the challenges about the LifeWay Worship Project, frankly, is explaining it. The pieces that make up the puzzle include just about every kind of resource that churches today are using in congregational worship.
As the marketing manager for the project, my job is to tell churches about it, and from about day one, I knew we had a problem. If your church is a Baptist church interested in using a pew edition hymnal, you need to know that Baptist Hymnal™ is a big part of the project. Or, if you're not a Baptist church, you need to know that The Worship Hymnal is a big part of the project.
But, if your church doesn't use a hymnal, you need to know that there are 92 compact disc, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and DVD products in the LifeWay Worship Project that could turn out to be indispensable for your ministry. And, there will be literally thousands of products that will be available online, none of which require the use of a pew edition hymnal.
So maybe we've defined another reason for the blog... to define how you can use those 93 products (counting the hymnal) in your ministry, no matter what your worship resource needs are.
Questions welcome!
