INTRODUCTION

UNDERSTANDING WORSHIP

  • What is worship?
  • Trinitarian but Christ-centered worship
  • Personal worship and corporate (gathered) worship        
  • Contexts of worship
  • Worship spectators or participants?
  • The Audience of One analogy       
  • Ways to encourage physical expression and freedom in worship
  • Styles of worship
  • Developing a missionary mindset in worship
  • Essence and expression of worship
  • Nonessentials and essentials of worship
  • Unified worship
  • Leading healthy change in worship

UNDERSTANDING  WORSHIP LEADERSHIP

  • A calling to worship leading
  • Defining worship leading
  • Some disciplines of worship leaders
  • Creating an environment of unconditional love for your worship team
  • Gathered worship and discipleship
  • Building a disciple-making worship ministry
  • Mentoring worship leaders
  • Developing a missional DNA in your worship ministry
  • Developing a higher level of excellence in your worship teams
  • Volunteer or called?
  • Creating a culture for better rehearsals

PLANNING WORSHIP

  • The formats of worship
  • Songs for worship
  • Modern songs for intergenerational worship
  • New songs: a worship enhancer or worship killer?
  • How many new songs should we sing?
  • Introducing new songs
  • Song lists for planning worship
  • Worship transitions
  • Linking worship songs: musical considerations
  • Linking worship songs: textual considerations
  • Non-musical elements of worship
  • Role of presentational/representational music
  • The worship planning team
  • Balancing spirit and truth
  • Planning the worship service

PREPARING FOR WORSHIP

  • Preparing the choir
  • Preparing the band and vocal team
  • Preparing the media
  • Preparing the congregation for worship
  • Preparing personally for worship

LEADING WORSHIP

  • Nine reasons people aren’t singing in worship and what to do about it
  • Speaking between songs and other elements of worship
  • Platform presence
  • Removing barriers to connecting with the congregation
  • Planning a worship event for people from different churches and worship styles

EVALUATING WORSHIP

  • Worship evaluation checklist

FINAL WORDS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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