Nine O'Clock Service ?? Alternative Worship?? Sheffield's Rave Mass Cult??
Colin Roberts
It has been over 3 years since the collapse of Sheffield’s
controversial Nine O'clock Service ‘ aka The Rave Mass cult’.
But what did the Nine O'clock Service actually stand for, and what
did it’s ‘bizarre’ religious practices actually consist of?
What caused so much outrage from evangelicals and anglocatholics
alike, and why did the Church allow this group to take so many
liberties with the faith and the liturgy?
For the first time since 1995 you can find out for your self, as I
have taken the liberty of publishing NOS’s belief statements, and
several transcripts of its ‘post modern’ ‘Alternative worship’
services. Also included are artistic, theological, and philosophical
resources relating to NOS.
The purpose in writing this page is to allow individuals access to all
the available documents so that they can make up their own minds
free from any single source of spin.
It would of course be inappropriate to write a NOS page without
including historical resources about the whole sorry business that
brought about its end and so damaged the reputation of creative
experimental worship in the Church of England
You can visit 'Unoffcially all about NOS' at
http://members.tripod.com/~nineoclockservice/Index__.html
Colin Roberts
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ps
Also included is a “A Duffers guide to post modernity”
What is 'Original Blessing'
The Gospel According to Matthew Fox
Quotes from Jurgen Moltman.
What is ‘Creation Spirituality
The Nine O’clock Community on ‘Songs of Praise’ (6/12/98)
Quotes from The Post Evangelical , The Post Evangelical Debate and
reviews from the
post-modern Christian Site on Dave Thomlinson’s book.
Quotes from Peter Ward’s book ‘Growing up evangelical’
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Colin Roberts
Philip Gardner
from Colin Roberts <ai...@ai565.demon.co.uk> contains these words:
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> But what did the Nine O'clock Service actually stand for, and what
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Please can we lose these 'quoted printables'?
Phil