“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” – Genesis 1:1 The very first thing God reveals about Himself in the Bible is that He is the Creator of all things. He alone breathes the breath of life into all the living. And amazingly, among all living things, God gives the highest priority […]
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While worship needs to be rooted in scripture, it should also embrace local culture, discern social changes and incorporate what is necessary to foster worship. Take contemporary worship for example: What started out in the Jesus movement surged into the charismatic movement and transformed worship in hundreds of churches. Music (especially of the pop/rock genre) […]
Your hairdo was distracting… the drums were too loud… you talked too much/little… your jeans were too tight… We worship leaders face our fair and sometimes unfair share of feedback, right?! While constructive feedback is essential for our improvement, receiving negative feedback is not the most enjoyable pastime for anyone! Let’s remember that when we […]
Dear friends in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), this post is for you. Because some of you are taking the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and its programmes a bit too seriously. Founded in 1970, SSPX claims to be Catholic but does not accept Catholic teaching—especially anything taught since Vatican II. They bizarrely believe […]
Celebrity controversies are all over the Christian Fifth estate, right? While Gungor’s view on the Bible is an opinion and Driscoll’s issues will go down as one man’s craziness, Vicky Beeching’s coming out story is different—it’s a controversy on steroids and is more likely to affect the church at large (if it already hasn’t, that […]
The best worship teams don’t need to have the best musical or vocal talent. But they undoubtedly need to have the best of relationships within. Anointed worship teams are more often than not made up of people who genuinely like each other, regard each other positively, encourage each other, and treat each other fairly. When […]
Experience teaches us loads of stuff that can rarely be learnt from any other source. However, experience also brings with it the curse of going through the motions. I mean, we’ve led worship so many times that now, we are able to do it with our eyes closed (pun intended!) now, right? Have you been […]
When we do something over and over and over again, regularly, it becomes a routine, right? The problem is that anything that we treat as routine usually becomes boring after a point. So is the case with leading worship or any other ministry. Boredom inevitably leads to burnout. How we handle burnout is important—handling it […]
There’s always room for conflicts when working together. Preachers and worship leaders are no exception. This is why they need to know how to maintain a positive relationship despite misunderstandings and disagreements. Unfortunately maintenance doesn’t happen itself. You must make it happen. This blog post is about a few things worship leaders and preachers can […]
It seems that lots of churches today are dealing with similar problems when it comes to congregational worship. Our congregations are in danger of becoming more like spectators than actual participants. There are many reasons cited for this shift. I read something once that indicated the more professional and slick the service is, the more […]