A guide to biblically shaped worship, which has the greatest missional impact in a post-Christian culture By the Waters of Babylon examines a relationship between worship, culture, and evangelism that is centered in a desire for biblical fidelity rather than cultural relevance. Imagine how the Hebrews felt during their years of captivity in Babylon. How could they sing the songs they once sang in the spender of Jerusalem now that they sat in exile? Christian worship in the West faces many of the same challenges as this tragic account of Israel’s captivity. By all accounts Christendom is dead, and unbiblical beliefs have progressively permeated Western thought, expectations, and culture. So how should churches respond to this seismic shift in their relationship with an increasingly post-Christian culture while still following the biblical mandate to reach that culture with the gospel of Jesus Christ? By the Waters of Babylon will help Christians wrestle through this critical issue of the relationship between Christian worship and evangelistic witness, especially in the context of an increasingly hostile culture. The author demonstrates that biblically regulated, gospel-shaped corporate worship that communicates God’s truth through appropriate cultural forms will have the most missional impact in a post-Christian context.

By the Waters of Babylon: Worship in a Post-Christian Culture

Aniol, Scott

Religion & Spirituality

Kregel Ministry

“Few books have been written that carefully distinguish between secular music that we listen to every day, and sacred music,” Scott Aniol says. “After discussing some foundational matters, the first section considers how to make God-pleasing choices regarding the secular music we listen to, and the second deals more narrowly with sacred music.” Contending that much of the confusion about the music issue is primarily a theological misunderstanding, Aniol discusses such issues as what does Sola Scriptura really mean?, the nature of biblical affections, the essence of biblical worship, and the purpose of music in the church. Cultural issues discussed include meaning in music, the nature of pop culture, and different kinds of emotion. Each chapter concludes with aids for discussion so that the book may be used in small groups and classrooms. Further resources are available at worshipinsongbook.com or at the website for Aniol’s music and consulting ministry, religiousaffections.org.

Worship in Song: A Biblical Philosophy of Music and Worship

BMH Books

This is a book about making musical choices. But not just any choices. This is a book about making musical choices that are deliberately informed by the Word of God. It is about making choices that are discerning, wise, beneficial, and edifying. This book is about making musical choices that will bring glory to God. Six brief, engaging chapters will help you answer the most significant questions influencing our musical choices today.

Sound Worship: A Guide to Making Musical Choices in a Noisy World

Religious Affections Ministries

The Teacher's Edition for Sound Worship: A Guide To Making Musical Choices in a Noisy World by Scott Aniol includes the full text of the book, 14,000 additional words of instruction, illustration, explanation, discussion questions, student handouts, and more.

Sound Worship: Teacher's Edition: A Guide to Making Musical Choices in a Noisy World

This declaration reaffirms a historic commitment to fully orbed conservative Christianity. The authors believe in transcendent, absolute principles of truth, goodness, and beauty; they are confident that such principles are knowable; and they are determined to align themselves and their ministries to those principles in our pursuit of the whole counsel of God. They also pledge to conserve those institutions and forms that best reflect a recognition and respect for this transcendent order.The authors offer this document out of a deep love for Christ, his gospel, his inerrant Word, and his church, and from a humble desire to help churches conserve and nourish historic, biblical Christianity by affirming the teachings of the Bible concerning truth, goodness, beauty, and rightly ordered affections in life and ministry.

A Conservative Christian Declaration

Martin, Ryan

Riley, Michael

de Bruyn, David

Bauder, Kevin T

Parker, Jason

This Bible Reading Guide helps believers read through all of the narrative passages of Scripture, plus Psalms and Proverbs, over fifty-two 5-day weeks. It includes a chronological reading plan along with a 52-week catechism, memory passage for each week, and hymn of the week. Finally, it contains a guide for each day of readings that includes study notes, a brief description, and questions for personal or group reflection.

Tune My Heart: Bible Narratives Devotional Guide for Families or Individuals (Tune My Heart: Resources for Personal and Family Worship)

Through tracing the liturgical history of the Christian faith from its foundation in Old Testament Israel through the early church, middle ages, Reformation, to the present, this book demonstrates that liturgy forms religion and religion forms liturgy. One of the best ways to truly understand what lies at the core of the Christian faith is by studying its worship, for corporate worship does something far more significant than many Christians recognize-public worship both reveals belief and forms belief. How a community worships-its content, its liturgy, and its forms of expression-reveals the underlying religious commitments of those who plan and lead the worship. Conversely, corporate worship forms the beliefs of the worshipers. Public worship is not simply about authentic expression of the worshipers; rather, how a church worships week after week progressively shapes their beliefs since those worship practices were cultivated by and embody certain beliefs.

Changed from Glory into Glory: The Liturgical Story of the Christian Faith (Hardcover)

H&e Academic

Through tracing the liturgical history of the Christian faith from its foundation in Old Testament 
Israel through the early church, middle ages, Reformation, to the present, this book demonstrates 
that liturgy forms religion and religion forms liturgy. 
One of the best ways to truly understand what lies at the core of the Christian faith is by studying 
its worship, for corporate worship does something far more significant than many Christians 
recognize-public worship both reveals belief and forms belief. How a community 
worships-its content, its liturgy, and its forms of expression-reveals the underlying religious 
commitments of those who plan and lead the worship. Conversely, corporate worship forms the 
beliefs of the worshipers. Public worship is not simply about authentic expression of the 
worshipers; rather, how a church worships week after week progressively shapes their beliefs 
since those worship practices were cultivated by and embody certain beliefs. 
This is why it is so important for church leaders, and indeed all Christians, to carefully identify 
what kinds of beliefs have shaped their various worship practices so that they will choose to 
worship in ways that best form their minds and hearts consistent with their theological 
convictions. That is the goal of this book: studying worship in the Old and New Testaments will 
reveal how God deliberately prescribed worship that would form his people as he desires, and 
tracing the evolution of Christian worship from after the close of the New Testament to the 
present day will help elucidate how theological beliefs affected the worship practices Christians 
have inherited.

Changed from Glory into Glory: The Liturgical Story of the Christian Faith

Joshua Press (an Imprint of H&e Publishing)

In Let the Little Children Come, Scott Aniol strives to convince church leaders and parents that children best grow into faithful, mature worshipers of Jesus Christ when they are led to Jesus by their parents in the context of intergenerational church gatherings and in daily worship at home. In Part 1, Scott presents biblical and theological reasons families should worship together both on Sundays and the other six days too, addressing common objections and suggesting some practical ways family worship might be recovered. In Part 2, Scott then offers practical tips and myriads of resources for engaging children in church worship as well as family worship at home.

Let the Little Children Come: Family Worship on Sunday (and the Other Six Days Too)

Free Grace Press LLC

Ever since Cain and Abel, God's people have been asking, "What is the proper way to worship God?" In five compelling chapters, Scott Aniol explains that corporate worship theology and practice must be founded in the Word of God. There we discover that corporate worship's goal is communion with God through regular, weekly covenant renewal, wherein the entire congregation engages in dialogue with God in a meeting structured around the gospel, toward the goal of spiritual fellowship with God through Christ by the Spirit.

Biblical Foundations of Corporate Worship

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