Brain-Based Worship: Remembering The Mind-Body Connection

Historically, it has been believed that Christian formation occurs primarily in the context of worship. Because both traditional and contemporary worship services are routinely structured around the skills of persuasive rhetoric and logic, most worship services effectively ignore the impact of experiential, embodied knowledge. Recent research in neuroscience has proven that humans are sensory-motor-emotional-thinking beings who learn best when body, brain, and emotions are simultaneously engaged. A fresh paradigm for teaching, brain-based leaning, is proving to result in learning that is more memorable, more likely to result in long-term change in the behavior of the learner, and more likely to spur the learner to investigate the subject further. The Church needs to employ brain-based teaching methods in order to more effectively transmit the Gospel.

• • Author: Paula Champion-Jones
• • Publisher: Westbowpress
• • Publication Date: Oct 07, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 184 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1490851704
• • ISBN-13: 9781490851709