These congregations are largely evangelical and suburban without many of the trapping of tradition and liturgy. Lyrics come not from hymnals, but a huge overhead screen illuminating one wall. It's not traditional church music. Here at Grace Church they say it's more like popular music, the kind of music people listen to all week long. Music designed to reach a contemporary audience, and at Grace it does just that.
Music is worship.
It is praising, rejoicing. You can just experience the joy in the music. Rick Nelson, raised a Catholic, attends Grace Church in Edina with his wife and children. Grace draws an average of 3,200 people each Sunday, nearly 6,000 on this Easter morning. The church owns a small fleet of buses which run constantly, shuttling people from a parking ramp two blocks away.