Calling on God Leader's Guide
A guide to using Calling on God in worship communities, with:
- A sample order of service
- Suggestions for enhancing the visual environment for worship
- Guidelines for creating liturgies collaboratively in your own worship community
This special prayerbook is for today's Christians who find comfort in the rhythm of the traditional lectionary but long to connect with God in ways that are satisfying to the modern heart and mind. Founded on creativity, inclusivity and sharing, it encourages us to remember the divine elements of the natural world around us as we express our hopes and fears for others and ourselves. Inspiring words help us give thanks for human inventions and lament the evils of poverty, violence and oppression of all kinds while remaining mindful of God's promises of healing for a broken world.
Following the annual procession of the seasons with prayers that are appropriate for personal devotion as well as for use in leading worship, these new ways to call on God will feed your soul and inspire you to find your own fresh language for thanksgiving, praise, intercession and petition, whether in your community or personal spiritual life.
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Book details
- Author
- Peter Bankson
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Prayerbooks › Christian
Religion › Christian Living › Prayer - Topics
- Christian prayer · inclusive worship · lectionary · liturgy · worship community · prayer book · collaborative worship
- ISBN-13
- 9781594735912 (Paperback)9781683365839 (Hardcover)
About the author
PETER BANKSON is a preacher, worship leader, and spiritual guide who has served at Seekers Church in Washington, DC since the mid-1980s. His books include Calling on God Leader’s Guide and Calling on God: Inclusive Christian Prayers for Three Years of Sundays, both co-authored with Deborah Sokolove.
Bankson is a former colonel in the U.S. Army and a member of the Servant Leadership Team at Seekers Church. He contributed photography to The Soulwork of Clay: A Hands-On Approach to Spirituality by Marjory Zoet Bankson.
When not writing, Bankson experiments as a fiber sculptor. The prayers in Calling on God were written over years of taking turns leading worship at Seekers Church.
Peter lives in Washington, DC.