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[This post is part of a series on Leading Your Team & Congregation Through Worship Tensions. Check out the rest here.]
It’s becoming increasingly popular for worship teams to cover secular music in their services.
I thought I’d bring up the tension so we can talk about it. I realize that there are spirited opinions on both sides but it can be helpful for us to discuss our views… in love.
Shall we?
The last thing you probably want is to be a fake worship leader.
But it’s easy to do. Sin lurks right around the corner. Your flesh longs for adoration. It gets easier to have a form of worship leading but denying true worship.
So, if you want to be a fake worship leader print off this list and hang it on your wall.
Or better yet, avoid it like the your life depends on it:
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As I mentioned last week, songwriting retreats are the cat’s pyjamas. More specifically, collaborative songwriting is the best way for worship teams to identify with their particular community and produce the best songs they can.
Are you doing it?
[This post is part of a series on Leading Your Team & Congregation Through Worship Tensions. Check out the rest here.]
Worship leaders seem to function in one extreme or the other: the prophetic or the planned.
As with all these worship tensions we’re talking about, it’s difficult to pin one better than the other. Is it possible to be musically excellent with tightly constructed arrangements AND flow in the prophetic?
It’s like you have Kevin Prosch, Jason Upton, and ihop boxing with Hillsong, Chris Tomlin, and Desperation Band.
Who wins?
Which is better?
Which should we pursue?
The more you do something, the more familiar it becomes.
The more familiar something becomes, the less you think about it.
The less you think about it, the easier it is to fake it.
To be honest, I feel like a fake more often than not.