How to Worship for All Its Worth: A Guide for Pastors, Worship Leaders, and Students

by Steven Félix-Jäger

Publisher:

HarperCollins

, 2025

Overview

How to Worship for All Its Worth, theologian, artist, and songwriter Steven Félix-Jäger offers four principles for contemporary worship and several case studies from a range of churches and traditions to help the body of Christ discern how to worship God well.

Worship of God is at the heart of the Christian life. But it also varies widely across different churches and traditions. What, then, should our worship look like? And what does it mean to worship God well?

In How to Worship for All Its Worth, theologian, artist, and songwriter Steven Félix-Jäger offers four principles for contemporary worship: it should be biblically faithful; aesthetically rich yet appropriate; theologically sound and robust; and pastorally sensitive but challenging.

Demonstrating what these principles look like in practice, he also offers case studies from a range of churches and traditions, including Evangelical, Reformed, Pentecostal, Black Gospel, and Charismatic Catholic worshiping communities. Collectively, these principles and case studies can help the body of Christ, which is both one yet diverse, as it seeks to worship God well.

Key Features

• Offers four principles for contemporary worship and several case studies.
• Presents case studies from a range of churches and traditions.
• Includes Evangelical, Reformed, Pentecostal, Black Gospel, and Charismatic Catholic worshiping communities.

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Four Principles for Judging Worship Well

1. Biblical Judgment: Scriptural Faithfulness in Worship

2. Aesthetic Judgment: The Form and Fit of Worship

3. Theological Judgment: The Confession and Content of Worship

4. Pastoral Judgment: The Ministry and Formation of Worship

Part 2: Case Studies in Planning Worship Well

5. How to Plan Worship Well: Assessing and Selecting Worship

6. Evangelical Worship: Park Avenue Baptist Church, Titusville, FL

7. Reformed Worship: Pillar Church, Holland, MI

8. Pentecostal Worship: Life Church, Lancaster, CA

9. Black Gospel Worship: A TBD American Methodic Episcopalian Church

10. Charismatic Catholic Worship: A TBD Charismatic Catholic Church Conclusion

Product Details

• Title: How to Worship for All Its Worth: A Guide for Pastors, Worship Leaders, and Students
• Author: Steven Félix-Jäger
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780310172666, 0310172667
• Resource ID: LLS:HWSHPLTHGDPTRSTNTS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-03-12T19:06:44Z

About Steven Félix-Jäger

Steven Félix-Jäger, (PhD, University of Wales) is assistant professor and chair of the worship arts and media program at Life Pacific University. He is the author of Art Theory for a Global Pluralistic Age, Spirit of the Arts, With God on Our Side, and Pentecostal Aesthetics.