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Sep 04 2014

#56: Chris Brown on Elevation Worship, Intentional Songwriting, & Serving Your Pastor’s Vision

NIWA-recording_600If there’s anyone creating an exciting worship team culture, it’s Elevation Worship.

For the last few years, they’ve pushed themselves in a lot of creative directions and have gotten behind the vision of Pastor Steven Furtick.

I had the honor of chatting with Chris Brown, one of the main worship leaders at Elevation. We discuss all things Elevation, songwriting, working with your lead pastor, and making disciples – all things I’m super passionate about.

I know you’ll glean some insights here:

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Scripture of the Week

Psalm 56:8-11

“You have kept count of my tossings;
put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your book?
Then my enemies will turn back
in the day when I call.
This I know, that God is for me.
In God, whose word I praise,
in the Lord, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
What can man do to me?”

What You’ll Learn in this Episode

  • How Elevation synchronizes their campuses with fiber-optic point to point
  • Stories of when technology failed and how they had to persevere
  • Long term investment in people and development
  • Taking risks on people
  • The importance of maintaining a great relationship with your pastor
  • A behind the scenes look at Elevation’s songwriting culture
  • Proactive versus reactive creativity
  • How Elevation approached their upcoming album, “Wake Up the Wonder”
  • On staying rooted and planted where you are

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

  • Website: Elevation Worship
  • Website: Elevation Worship Academy
  • Website: Elevation Worship Internship
  • Twitter: @elevation_wrshp
  • Music: Only King Forever by Elevation Worship
  • Podcast: Steffany Gretzinger

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Written by David Santistevan · Categorized: Podcast

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  1. David Geipel says

    September 4, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    Great podcast (as always) Dave. Love the insight into Elevation’s multi-site click too. Thanks to you and Chris Brown for the time.
    ~Dave

    • David Santistevan says

      September 6, 2014 at 7:02 am

      Our pleasure, David! Thanks for listening. Do you guys use any type of multi-site click?

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