Worship leaders must develop their own filters to determine and discern what music is appropriate for their worship diet and worship culture at their church. Choosing songs merely based on preference alone, what’s “hot” on the radio or what stimulated a meaningful worship experience in your car aren’t necessarily great metrics for determining what truth to put into the mouths of worshippers on the weekend.
Just as flags mark ownership and territory, songs often reflect the desires we have for the Lord to take deeper ownership and territory of our hearts.
One of the most daunting things both a worship leader and pastor face every Monday morning is a blank sheet of paper.
Critical to the effectiveness of any worship ministry is determining what songs you will use to lead your people in worship.
Biblical worship, like our lives, is also consumed with destination and the final destination of all Biblical worship is vertical. I’m not saying that worship cannot or should not have horizontal aspects.
Since 2001, I have been blessed to be part of the Harvest Bible Chapel movement of churches throughout North America. One of the many things I have appreciated about Harvest culture is its emphasis on unashamed worship. For many years I have practiced and taught the 'numbering system' for planning corporate worship. This approach, originally coined …
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