Worship & Personal Faith
Bridges Program
What is Worship and Personal Faith Development?
Worship is practice of connecting your beliefs to your actions, particularly in the way that you relate to that which you consider to be of upmost importance in guiding your life decisions. We all have something we worship – for some people that “something” is God or a higher power. For others, that “something” could be an idea, a goal, the interconnected web of existence, the goodness of mankind, or even a possession (we all know people who worship their material goods such as their clothes or cell phone). As we develop our personal faith beliefs, we also develop our ability to worship and to put our beliefs into practice.
What do I need to do?
You have seven goals to complete in this milestone. For each goal, you will complete 13 learning experiences. If you complete a learning experience for one goal, it counts for that goal only (so, no double counting!).
Everyone who achieves this milestone needs to complete four core learning experiences: Worship Leader, Spiritual Disciplines, Theology, and Statement of Faith.
Take a look at the list of learning experiences and mark the ones you might be interested in.
4.1 Be knowledgeable of different forms of worship. (complete at least two – only one of which can be a learning experience which is marked with an asterisk *)
☐ Baha’i explorer*
☐ Buddhism explorer*
☐ Cao Dai explorer*
☐ Catholicism explorer*
☐ Celebrate Our Faith
☐ Chinese Traditional Religions*
☐ Earth-Centered Worship*
☐ Faith Explorer
☐ General Assembly
☐ Hinduism*
☐ Islam (overview)*
☐ Jainism explorer*
☐ Judaism (overview)*
☐ Ministry
☐ My Faith & Beliefs
☐ Native-American Spirituality*
☐ Pagan explorer*
☐ Prayer & Meditation
☐ Protestant Christianity explorer*
☐ Rastafarianism*
☐ Religious Drama
☐ Shinto explorer*
☐ Sikhism explorer*
☐ Spiritual Disciplines
☐ Tenrikyo explorer*
☐ World Religions (overview)*
☐ Worship Music
☐ Worship (overview)
☐ Zoroastrianism*
4.2 Understand the role of worship in the UU congregation. Know how to organize and lead a worship service. (complete at least two)
☐ Worship Leader (required)
☐ Celebrate Our Faith
☐ Church Music
☐ Ministry
☐ Prayer & Meditation
☐ Public Speaking
☐ Worship Music
☐ Worship (overview)
4.3 Develop ones own sense and style of worship. (complete at least two)
☐ Church Music
☐ Critical Thinking about Religion
☐ Earth-Centered Worship
☐ Prayer & Meditation
☐ Soul Search
☐ Spirituality at Home
☐ Worship Music
☐ Worship (overview)
4.4 Understand the role of music, prayer, mediation, and sacred scripture in worship. Be experienced with varying forms of spiritual disciplines including dance, fasting, meditation, silence, and chanting. (complete at least three, only one of which can be a learning experience that is marked with an asterisk)
☐ Spiritual Disciplines (required)
☐ Animism *
☐ Apocrypha
☐ Art and Faith
☐ Art at Church
☐ Baha’i explorer *
☐ Biblical Hebrew
☐ Biblical Wisdom
☐ Buddhism explorer *
☐ Cao Dai explorer *
☐ Catholicism explorer *
☐ Chinese Traditional Religions *
☐ Christian Bible (overview)
☐ Church Music
☐ Earth-Centered Worship *
☐ Epistles
☐ General Assembly
☐ Gospels
☐ Hinduism *
☐ Historical Books of the Bible
☐ Islam (overview) *
☐ Jainism explorer *
☐ Jewish Bible (overview)
☐ Major Prophets
☐ Minor Prophets
☐ Native-American Spirituality *
☐ New Testament Explorer
☐ Prayer & Meditation
☐ Prophets of the World’s Religions
☐ Qur’an explorer
☐ Qur’an through History
☐ Rastafarianism *
☐ Reading for Inspiration
☐ Religious Architecture
☐ Religious Drama
☐ Shinto explorer *
☐ Sikhism explorer *
☐ Spirituality at Home
☐ Tenrikyo explorer *
☐ Torah
☐ World Religions (overview) *
☐ Worship Music
☐ Worship (overview)
☐ Writings of the Hebrew Bible
☐ Zoroastrianism *
4.5 Know the differences between our faith and others; be able to share the principles of Unitarian Universalism with others. (complete at least two: one of which must be a learning experience marked with an asterisk)
☐ Celebrate Our Faith
☐ Critical Thinking about Religion
☐ Faith Explorer
☐ My Faith & Beliefs *
☐ Sharing my Faith *
☐ World Religions (overview)
4.6 Understand and be able to explain basic theological concepts and how they relate to our daily lives.
☐ Theology (required)
4.7 Create and live out a personal statement of faith.
☐ Statement of Faith (required)