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Inspiration » Leading Creative Worship
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I recently attended a conference for worship pastors. It was an amazing experience and if you haven't ever been to one, you need to go. The worship was incredible. Prominent bands and worship leaders led us in amazing times of worship. The presence of God was so real and so inviting. As I observed worship leaders and their teams during the week I was taken back by the amount of people that had "that look". Have you seen people with "that look"? There is nothing wrong with "that look". There is nothing wrong with having better hair than the average woman or even having a cool earring to sport around. There is nothing bad about chasing "that look". Sure Chris Tomlin and Lincoln Brewster are studs and we all want to look that good leading worship. We wish we were skinny dudes with tight jeans and culturally relevant threads. Come on, be honest with yourself. These guys are cool with a capital "C". They look the part.
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Internet technology, usually considered a great way to communicate with friends, and find product information, is changing the way to find, evaluate, buy, and even listen to music for praise and worship. Affordable and easy-to-use music software for creating and posting music online, along with advances in file streaming and increasing availability of high speed Internet connections allow anyone to make their music available to the world. This allows you to share your music with anyone with Internet access, and lets others share with you. Publishing companies have taken advantage of this as well.
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One half of being a worship leader is being a leader. If you’re like most, however, you’ve spent most of your time perfecting the musical gifts that God has given you. As you’ve done that, you’ve been promoted and now find yourself leading not just worship, but the congregation and the music team as well. The good news is that leadership skills can be learned, and God’s Word has much to say about how to lead.
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A few years ago, within a few weeks' time, I had the opportunity to speak to students at three different Christian colleges in the Minneapolis area on the subject of worship. Most of these students had grown up in evangelical churches and many were headed toward full-time ministry. I began each class with the same question: "When you go to church, do you go to participate or to listen?" In all of these classes the answer was "Listen." Then I asked, "When you do participate, what do you do?" They said, "Sing." So, I asked, "When you sing, who do you sing to?"
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I am a worship leader and love very much the work God has called me to do. Every week I stand with brass players on my left, rhythm players on my right, singers behind me, a congregation before me and as the call to worship sounds, together we exalt God. Actually, I have the "best seat" in the house; I'm surrounded by glorious praise. And sometimes in the middle of all that's happening, I actually have an authentic worship experience - the kind I pray the congregation is having.
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Have you ever used somebody else's song or picture on your web site and wondered, "Do I really have permission to use this?!" While we're not here to provide specific legal advice, we can offer you some general guidelines, encourage you to seek specific legal counsel for your projects and point you to some resources to help you stay within the parameters of the law. Let's pull out a few letters from our mailbag and ask Alan Durham to respond to them. He is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama School of Law where he teaches courses in intellectual property.
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Would you like to be a better musician? Don't know how to improve? Through years of teaching I have discovered similar characteristic study habits in myself and other successful students. Here are the basic concepts that seem to set them above the pack. Follow them and you will become a more valuable asset to your worship team. Share them with the other members of your worship team and raise the level of musicianship of the entire team.
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Many pastors have given up on creativity, thinking it is a special gift for the talented few. Not true. Everyone has some creative power and it can be increased by using what you have. Besides, the Holy Spirit—creative agent without rival—is eager to help you find new ways to gain the Gospel a hearing!
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One of the most interesting e-mails I've received lately was from a U.S National Guard solider stationed in Kuwait. His note was short. "Terry, I saw your article at www.tfwm.com regarding recording digital audio on a computer. I am looking for a simple way to record myself (as a file on the computer) reading stories to my children and attach it to an email to my wife so she can play it to them. I won't be home for another ten and a half months. Do you have any suggestions how to use this technology?"
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