What is emerginworship anyway?


So, my pastor went on sabatical to study and find out for himself what is this emerging worship. I started reading online and reading actual books made of paper and found so many different ideas. I started brain storming and here are some ideas I came up with about what it is and how can it be manifest:

Emerging Worship
Healing servicesMusic only worship (Congregational Music, Prayer, Scripture Reading)
Music with PowerPoint Presentations
Media inspiredMessianic Worship
Lessons on a Deeper understanding of GodMovement in WorshipDrama as worship
Dance
Sign Language in/as Worship

UNDERSTAND: Every Gift is a Real Gift! Every Talent is a Real Talent! Reading Writing Painting Cooking Serving Typing Organizing Singing Signing Exercising Teaching Learning Sharing Inventing

To me emerging worship is= Abandoning the Law Giving, Law Keeping, Hate Filled, Rule Giving, Paranoid message and style of the Modern Christian Church and Grasping the Message of REAL Grace. Not Grace as defined by man, but grace as Defined by God. Dispensing with the notion that God is somehow finite and human-like and realizing the point is for humans to become more infinite and God-like. More infinite in our understanding, more open in our beliefs more accepting of concepts that oppose what we have been taught for years on end.
Emerging Worship= Doing those things in worship which bring us closer to God. This is not necessarily ‘church’ as we define it. How about…..

Walking in the Forest or Fields Watching a sunset Rocking a baby Sitting by a river to pray Enjoying a sunrise Sitting and just thinking about God Writing a book Singing a song to yourself Drawing a picture Putting your thoughts up on a blog:)

There are no rules about how we should worship just that we should worship in a way that opens us up to new depths of understanding. If your way to worship is to have high church, then by all means do so. My only wish in that is that there is a deeper understanding of God in all that ceremony. In the same manner I would wish that those who have high energy worship not get caught up in how good the music is and how good they are FEELING and pay attention to how good God is. The Jewish tradition says that the highest form of worship is study. To them this is emerging worship. To me music sends me to the highest of places with God as do trials and tribulations. What is this emerging?