Newsletter July 1997 Newsletter Ginghamsburg Newsletter July 1997 We believe the worship of God is the most important thing that the Church does. With his permission, we have presented some of Franklyn's thoughts and observances.
Worship is always multi-sensory and multimedia.
For hundreds of years, Christian worshippers have gathered in churches that offered the most spectacular sensory stimulation that could be experienced in the culture. This sensory environment was effective even when the preacher was seen as the sole intellectual - alone with God, his thoughts and his books, producing another document that he read to the people. While most churches continue to provide holy space for worship using the same sensory experiences defined in the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries, a few are setting a new example. They grow because they focus on the worship of God as the most important thing that the church does. Franklyn referred to Ginghamsburg as one such place and noted that nearly half of its worshippers were unchurched before they were attracted into the presence of God with multimedia worship.