Rhythms Of Grace Summary

For my third book report I read Rhythms of Grace by Mike Cosper. I found this book through research I was doing online about worship, and while reading through the description for the book my curiosity was hooked when I read that Cosper would ultimately attempt to answer the question of what is worship. Cosper starts off his book in the preface with explaining his reasoning behind the book. It started through his journey of trying to answer the question of why? Of asking “Why did we gather? Why did we sing? Why did we do it the way we did?” (17) Through his and his fellow pastors soul searching he comes to the conclusion that worship is all about the gospel. He expands on this idea by saying that the gospel “is the center point for all of
I would recommend this book to other interns, and also other worship leaders and pastors. It’s been refreshing to read through Cosper’s thought’s and ideas. He displays them in such a way that just make sense. To close I'm going to leave you with Cospers closing paragraph. I think it is explanatory of his main message found throughout the book. “Gathering for worship is a life-shaping moment in a congregation’s week, and our task as pastors is to seize that opportunity for an all-out assault on people’s hearts. As servants of God, we prepare people for death, and we prepare them for eternity. And most of them think they’re just ‘going to church.’ They gather and they scatter, and what we give them goes with them as they struggle and pray thought their week. Worship leaders and pastors have been entrusted with the task of building up congregations through the life-giving rhythms of grace. When God’s word is clearly seen, heard, spoken, and sung in worship, hardened hearts are broken, and the weak and browbeaten are lifted up. We are able to join the celebration of the joyful and weep with those who weep. We want to draw out these voices in the songs and prayers of the church in a way that helps worshipers see afresh the story and glory of the gospel.”