People want a taste of heaven. Here's how your church can satisfy this longing.  
  
In The Complete Worship Service, experienced worship leader and pastor Kevin Navarro shows you how to create a complete worship service by implementing a four-part pattern of worship: longing for, preparing for, experiencing, and talking about a taste of heaven. Recognizing worship as a form of hospitality, Navarro shares practical considerations and ideas to help you make all the elements work together, from greeting guests to using music to teaching the Word. The Complete Worship Service can help you build a church that experiences God's presence and welcomes others to the celebration.  
  
  
"Kevin Navarro explores this vital connection between our fragmented experience in the here and now and the hope we all share for the time that certainly will come when heaven will come for us."-Michael Card, award-winning musician; author, A Sacred Sorrow  
  
"The Complete Worship Service is a timely, passionate antidote to the worship humanism saturating contemporary services."-Sally Morgenthaler, founder, Sacramentis.com; author, Worship Evangelism   
  
"When I closed this book, I felt a tremendous mixture of hope, excitement, affirmation, and renewed devotion to the work of crafting weekly worship services."-Nancy Beach, teaching pastor and creative director, Willow Creek Community Church  
  
  
Kevin J. Navarro (D.Min., Fuller Theological Seminary) is senior pastor at Bethany Evangelical Free Church in Littleton, Colorado, and the author of The Complete Worship Leader.

Kevin J. Navarro (D.Min., Fuller Theological Seminary) is senior pastor at Bethany Evangelical Free Church in Littleton, Colorado and the author of The Complete Worship Leader. As an artist, theologian, and pastor, he has been using his extensive musical and theological background to teach about and lead worship in the local church and in parachurch ministries for over twenty years.

Just as diners visit a fine restaurant anticipating the ambiance and meal to come, so first-time guests and members alike come to church to experience the presence of God. In this follow-up book to The Complete Worship Leader, veteran worship leader and pastor Kevin Navarro helps church leaders create a complete worship service by implementing a four-part pattern of worship: longing for, preparing for, experiencing, and talking about a taste of heaven.  
   
Approaching the worship service as an act of hospitality, Navarro emphasizes clearing away obstacles and communicating the gospel. He shares practical ideas for churches of all kinds and sizes-everything from assisting guests to using the arts to centering the preaching on Christ. Pastors, worship leaders, and church leaders of any denomination and worship style will benefit from this practical guide.

Practical guidance for church leaders on making all aspects of a worship service work together to welcome all and communicate the gospel.

Navarro, Kevin J.

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

Part One: Longing for a Taste of Heaven 

1. Longing for Heaven

2. Heaven

3. A Taste of Heaven, the Worship Service

Part Two: Preparing for a Taste of Heaven 

4. Quality Matters

5. You've Gotta Be There

6. Outreach Marketing

7. Parking, Outside Signage, and Attendants

8. Developing Dynamic Guest Care Teams and Systems

Part Three: Experiencing a Taste of Heaven 

9. The Worship Center

10. Music and the Arts

11. The Word of God

12. The Eucharist

Part Four: Talking about a Taste of Heaven 

13. Thanksgiving as the Consummation of Joy

Notes 

Bibliography 

Just as diners visit a fine restaurant anticipating the ambiance and meal to come, so first-time guests and members alike come to church to experience the presence of God. In this follow-up book to The Complete Worship Leader, veteran worship leader and pastor Kevin Navarro helps church leaders create a complete worship service by implementing a four-part pattern of worship: longing for, preparing for, experiencing, and talking about a taste of heaven.  
  
Approaching the worship service as an act of hospitality, Navarro emphasizes clearing away obstacles and communicating the gospel. He shares practical ideas for churches of all kinds and sizes-everything from assisting guests to using the arts to centering the preaching on Christ. Pastors, worship leaders, and church leaders of any denomination and worship style will benefit from this practical guide.

Helps church leaders create a worship service by implementing a four-part pattern of worship: longing for, preparing for, experiencing, and talking about a taste of heaven. This guide is intended for pastors, worship leaders, and church leaders of various denominations and worship styles.

Just as diners visit a fine restaurant anticipating the ambiance and meal to come, so first-time guests and members alike come to church to experience the presence of God. In this follow-up book to "The Complete Worship Leader", veteran worship leader and pastor Kevin Navarro helps church leaders create a complete worship service by implementing a four-part pattern of worship: longing for, preparing for, experiencing, and talking about a taste of heaven. Approaching the worship service as an act of hospitality, Navarro emphasizes clearing away obstacles and communicating the gospel. He shares practical ideas for churches of all kinds and sizes-everything from assisting guests to using the arts to centering the preaching on Christ. Pastors, worship leaders, and church leaders of any denomination and worship style will benefit from this practical guide.

"This is a book that is both spiritual and intensely practical at the same time."

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