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Becoming a Worship-Centered Congregation: The Process of Cultural Change in Congregations
Jane Rogers Vann
Calvin Symposium on Worship 2006

Becoming a worship-centered congregation is a profound cultural shift for some congregations and often takes as much as ten years. Using leadership theory and theories of transformational learning, this workshop explored the dynamics of congregational change, resistance to change, and the role of congregational leaders in always pointing toward the worship of God as the church's highest calling.

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Jane Rogers Vann is professor of Christian Education at Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia, and author of Gathered before God: Worship-Centered Church Renewal (Westminster/John Knox, 2004).