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9 Best Practices for Leading Multi Generational Worship

If you lead worship in a local church, there’s a good chance it is multi generational. Unless you’ve specifically planted a young adult church or are leading a youth movement, you have middle schoolers to great grandparents in your church, gathering to sing together.
Sound like fun?

It’s actually one of the most challenging aspects of local church, worship ministry. Worship wars. Too many preferences. If our goal is to make everyone happy, it’s an impossible task.

It takes big vision. It takes collaboration. It takes have an expansive view of the Kingdom that is more than sounding cool and singing popular songs.

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#203: Highlands Worship On Creating A Process for Worship Team Development [Podcast]

For years I’ve admired the work that Church of the Highlands is doing to reach people for Christ. This week’s podcast is a conversation with John Larson and Chris Griffin from Highlands Worship.

I love this because it feels like worship leader friends catching up and talking about ministry. These guys manage a worship team roster of 900 people across 19 campuses in Alabama. It’s staggering.

If you are a multi-site church (or planning on it), listen all the way to the end. So. Much. Gold.

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The Worship Leader’s Guide to Choosing the Best Songs

Let’s be honest. There’s too many songs.

If we combined all the church services across the world and tried to evenly spread out all the worship songs in the known universe, we still wouldn’t get through them all. I’m pretty sure that verse is in the Bible somewhere.

Matter of fact, once I get around to leading a popular song, it’s old already. Remember when churches used to say, “Yea, we’re still stuck with 90s Integrity songs.” Today, it’s “Bro, that’s so 2018. It’s time to modernize.”

But I’m here to tell you that it’s OK. In all honesty, the goal isn’t the quantity of songs. The goal isn’t songs at all. It’s about choosing the best quality songs that connect hearts to the Savior. But in today’s saturated song market, that’s hard to do. And let me give you some hard truths.

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The Creativity Conundrum: Do We Need More Or Less?

Do you think the church is in a creative rut?

In a recent podcast, Nancy Beach challenged worship leaders to think beyond just corporate worship songs as it relates to the gathering of God’s people. “We’re in a rut,” she said.

I often wonder if creativity is the goal of our gatherings. How important are creative elements? How important is songwriting? How important are videos, drama, stage design, and creative lighting?

I know, you’re waiting for me to condemn it all and call us back to the heart of worship. But I’m not going to do that. I simply want to invite you to a conversation.

None of us set out to make creativity the goal. Of course, we want it to serve people in seeing Jesus clearer. But are we accomplishing that?

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