I recently went to a district meeting. While there I am always amazed at the talent of the musicians, lights, vocals and seamless transitions. As I was worshiping I felt God telling me “yes these things are nice and well put together, but one of the most important things in worship and praise is exhortation, you can play the song perfectly and have all of the technology in the world, but if you cant connect the people to Him, why bother?”
so I have been working to spend more time between songs to connect them to God in that moment so that the song can just be a background or ambiance for their prayer/connection time with God.
I very much enjoyed your views on different types of worship and the benefits of creativity and openness.
Hey Josiah have you thought of having a Forum on here? I would love to meet others who use your site and share ideas and thoughts on worship, as well as ways people have used your clips and backgrounds in creative ways for services etc.
How about a time of Singing without instruments? Here is a link to youtube to hear 1000 teens sing a cappella and it is powerful, if you had an area in your church that has great acoustics you could assemble there and let it ring, what a powerful thing when you hear the harmony.
Excellent observations. I’m searching for ways to expand worship for an evening service that I will be coordinating in May. We have this service every 2 months, and a different person coordinates each one. This way it isn’t too burdensome on any one individual, and we can have fresh perspectives for each event.
I love your suggestions, and look forward to others commenting with their thoughts – come on folks, what’s going on in your neck of the woods?
I recently went to a district meeting. While there I am always amazed at the talent of the musicians, lights, vocals and seamless transitions. As I was worshiping I felt God telling me “yes these things are nice and well put together, but one of the most important things in worship and praise is exhortation, you can play the song perfectly and have all of the technology in the world, but if you cant connect the people to Him, why bother?”
so I have been working to spend more time between songs to connect them to God in that moment so that the song can just be a background or ambiance for their prayer/connection time with God.
I very much enjoyed your views on different types of worship and the benefits of creativity and openness.
Im a writer so I definitely enjoyed the idea of worship writing. My daughter is a songwriter so I would like to pursue that.
Hey Josiah have you thought of having a Forum on here? I would love to meet others who use your site and share ideas and thoughts on worship, as well as ways people have used your clips and backgrounds in creative ways for services etc.
How about a time of Singing without instruments? Here is a link to youtube to hear 1000 teens sing a cappella and it is powerful, if you had an area in your church that has great acoustics you could assemble there and let it ring, what a powerful thing when you hear the harmony.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq3U6k2Swag
Enjoy
Hoss
Excellent observations. I’m searching for ways to expand worship for an evening service that I will be coordinating in May. We have this service every 2 months, and a different person coordinates each one. This way it isn’t too burdensome on any one individual, and we can have fresh perspectives for each event.
I love your suggestions, and look forward to others commenting with their thoughts – come on folks, what’s going on in your neck of the woods?