Abstract:
The sacred and expectant quality of congregational singing is often identified as one of the distinctive qualities of neo-charismatic worship practice. Through song, the community worships and waits together to receive God’s grace. How did this notion of congregational singing emerge? In this essay, I examine the Vineyard understanding of congregational song as the creative appropriation of Quaker, evangelical, and Pentecostal liturgical elements. While this story could be told through examining the history of the Vineyard movement, I focus on a 1994 handbook for Vineyard worship to tease out its Quaker, evangelical, and Pentecostal inheritances.
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