From the Introduction:
…These pages also have the potential to release much needed conversations in our religious communities about very important issues surrounding and embedded within the worship of every congregation. America is the great worship smorgasbord – endless choices, endless competition. Increasingly, people come to any congregation, to any worship service, with a wide variety of preferences. Those who plan worship and who want to draw people into their communities of faith know just how powerful, how explosive the collision of those preferences can be.