Abstract
While worship is fundamentally a meeting between the body (individual and corporate) and God, the need for this Consultation on Black Worship is born from the varied crosses which Black folk bear in both the sacred and secular worlds. There is a need to acknowledge and overcome these crosses, as a people, in order completely to claim our freedom in Christ. As people who are not prone simply to theorize using white, Westernized frameworks about any given subject, the awesome task was mine to facilitate an authentic experience of the phenomonena of worship. The biggest concern was to answer the question: “How can this be done without contriving some concept of the ideal worship and, most of all, without stifling the Spirit to speak and move within the gathered people of God freely and powerfully?”