Worship Podcast & Blog
Worship leaders, we’ve gotten really good at leading songs.
But for us to see the breakthrough we want to see, we need to grow as leaders. Why? Because we are leading a post-Christian people. There are people in our churches who have never been to church. They don’t know the Gospel and they don’t know what to do in worship.
Your leadership skills on Sunday will help those who are new Christians to engage in worship. Having a great band and getting through songs isn’t enough.
Ever feel like you’re just dialing it in? That you’re just going through the motions of your ministry like a checklist you can’t wait to finish?
Sometimes it’s not even burnout, you know? You’re just tired. You’ve been doing the same thing over and over again for years. While you want to “come back to the heart of worship” sometimes you just want to wrap it up and watch football. You want to disconnect. You can’t wait for the weekend except for the fact that the weekend is game time and it has become work for you.
But we all know we can’t live in this realm. Worship is too important to dial it in. The Kingdom of God is too important for us to sleepwalk through Sunday. We need to be on the edge of our seat. We need to gaze in wide eyed wonder. The Kingdom of God doesn’t slow down.
Should we?
The church is the greatest movement the world has ever seen.” – Ryan Romeo
I love to be around people that inspire me – people who push me to dream bigger, love stronger, and accomplish more for the Kingdom of God. Ryan Romeo is one of those people.
Ryan is a worship leader, creative arts pastor, and co-founder of the Outcry Tour. In just its first tour, Outcry drew crowds of over 200,000 people to these church championing events with artists like Hillsong United, Crowder, Bethel Music, Jesus Culture, Kari Jobe, Rend Collective, and more.
In this conversation we talk about loving the church, doing big things, and go behind the scenes of Outcry. So much to take away from this.
Enjoy!
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If there’s one tool worship leaders use more than any other, it’s songs.
Songs are our currency. We listen to songs, rehearse songs, lead songs, study songs, write songs, and oftentimes have entire conversations using song lyrics. Songs are what we do.
I’m not here to bash worship songs. I’m not here to say worship isn’t about songs. Actually, it is. Of course, worship isn’t only songs. That’s like saying water alone keeps us alive. Actually, we need more than that. We need breath. We need food. The definition of worship isn’t songs, per se, but it’s a massive part of worship, particularly corporate worship.
The term worship music seems to diminish the word worship and make the word music more important.” – Crowder
A conversation with David Crowder is equal parts hilarious and educational. Busy in the middle of his American Prodigal tour, David called in from his tour bus out west to discuss…well, lots of stuff. We talk about creativity, coloring books, what we can learn from EDM & bluegrass, the new album, and more.
By the way, his new record is straight fire. I love it. Do yourself a favor and go listen to “Back to the Garden” now. Insane.
And enjoy this chat!
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