Come to Los Angeles for re-church, stay for the West Coast Worship Conference

March is shaping up to be a busy month!

As you must know by now, re-church and the Hollywood Adventist Church is hosting a gathering called Beyond Evandalism. Get all the juice here.

But if you plan it right, you can hang out in Southern California a bit longer and take in the West Coast Worship Conference (WCWC), March 5-7 in Simi Valley, California.

I'm excited to be working with my friend and fellow staff member at the Purple Church, Scott Arany, to do a workshop for the WCWC. Here's our workshop description.

So much of the debate around worship degenerates into a battle over consumer preferences (electric guitars vs. organs, hymns vs. praise choruses). Churches compete to hold the attention of an often dwindling audience such that stylistic considerations and excellence of performance too often dominates the worship conversation.

This workshop will look at the theology of worship in a missional framework with an eye to overcoming surface level debates over style and form to the more important question of the formation of a worshipping community as a place where God would be pleased to dwell. We will share how seasonal rhythms of the church year, scripture, prayer, art, music and sacrament have begun to form a missional imagination at the Hollywood Seventh-day Adventist Church in which our life in God invites us to be the healing presence of Christ in the world and our life in the world drives us back to our life in God.

Aren't you just dying to attend after reading that?