Emery-Wright Chapter Summary

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In this book, Emery-Wright (1012) refers to young people. Throughout this book all the references the author makes is to teenagers. An example of this is in the introduction of the book ‘16 year old Emily describes the music at Glastonbury as the greatest “worship” she had ever experienced and carried on to contrast it with her experience at church.’ (Emery-Wright, S, 2012, p1) This is just one case of many where Emery-Wright uses conversation he has had with young people to make a point.

In this book, Emery-Wright (2012), writes about his thoughts on worship and young people and why he believes the amount of young people in the church is dropping and has been in recent years. The author Emery-Wright (2012) states in the preface of the book
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On the reading of this book, it becomes apparent that Emery-Wright has done lots of researching around the topic of young people and their opinion on worship in the church. It is also clear the Emery-Wright (2012) has puts a lot of effort into the research for this book. You can see the great length that Emery-Wright has gone to buy looking at the biography (pp193-202). When you look at the biography of the book it show the amount of effort and research that the author has put into this book.

The structure of this book is in 4 parts as show on the contents page. (pi) These four section address the main problems you come across in many different worship situations. In the introduction of this book Emery-Wright (2012) make this statement ‘How you read the book depends on what you are seeking from it.’ (p10) The positive of this is the reader can use this book as they wish and not have to worry too much about misunderstand but however there is the negative that if the reader does not read the book cover to cover then the reader could misunderstand the point being

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