Paul Grodell, Youth Pastor, Cleveland, Ohio This would be a great book for your student small group to go through, as well as anyone interested in your worship ministry. Through this book, your students will encounter different aspects of worship each week such as: worshipping God, praising God, knowing God, hearing God, worshipping with others and serving God. Dwayne does an excellent job at showing the heart of worship through daily devotionals for students, as well as small group discussion topics for your leaders. I surely will be passing this one on to my youth.Īuthor Dwayne Moore takes us into a study of what it means to worship God with everything we have. It’s easy to use as a group study or idividually. He teamed up with Mark Hall of Casting Crowns to produce great videos to go with the study. Dwayne Moore has developed a wonderful study on praise and what it means to worship God with your heart. Don’t get me wrong - there’s a wealth of valuable info here - but I’m much more likely to use it for my own preparation (talks, small group, etc.) than I am to put it in the hands of my teens. If he’s going to make that distinction, I felt it needed to be supported more thoroughly from Scripture. Lastly, I felt the author’s distinction between praise and worship was a little contrived. I’m sure that clientele is out there, but the audience for this book might be limited. Given the book’s thoroughness and depth, I also was struck with the thought that it would take a very mature, very motivated, very spiritual young person to work through this in personal study. (Elsewhere it’s called a Bible Study.) Reading through it felt similar to reading a sermon series, not that there’s anything wrong with that but it may have been more effective as a regular book than as an interactive devotional. For example, in the intro, the author refers to this work as a devotional, but it doesn’t seem very, well, devotional. However, I found it a little content heavy for personal study. I found Pure Praise for Youth thorough, challenging and helpful.
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