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Typical vs. Possible Aesthetic Worship

There's a lot of confusion around the terms in use here. Aesthetic worship does, of course, have it's most typical examples around the world—but the examples themselves don't define what Aesthetic worship is. Just like the term "Baptist" brings to mind many of the traditional Baptist connotations, like 3-piece suits, southern accents, and altar calls, that doesn't mean that someone has to have those things to be a Baptist. Those are just some things that most Baptists happen to have in common.

Likewise, Aesthetic worship can take all different shapes and forms besides the traditional format outlined below:
  1. Prelude
  2. Call to Worship
  3. Invocation
  4. Praise
  5. Scripture Reading
  6. Offertory Hymn
  7. Offertory Prayer
  8. Offertory
  9. Special Music
  10. Sermon
  11. Invitation
  12. Benediction
  13. Postlude
To learn more about what exactly constitutes Aesthetic worship design, check out our other post What Does it Mean to be "Aesthetic?"

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