As “executive producer” of our new worship CD producer at Northview, I had several goals – they are as follows:
1. I wanted to make sure that we used our worship team – all of it! If it’s going to have the church name on it, it should have the church team. If it’s just the worship leader and a bunch of outside musicians, it’s an ego project (that’s basically the worship leader saying that they are the personification of worship at that church). As you may be able to tell, I feel strongly about this…
2. I wanted to make sure that it would contain worship music that the church is actually doing (or will be doing). It’s OK to have a couple of “specials” in there, but if it’s just originals by the worship leader, it gets into ego territory again. It may cost a little bit to get rights to the song, if you didn’t write it, but it’s worth it.
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I'm a Christian, a husband, a dad, a son, a pastor, a consultant, a musician, a writer, and bits and pieces of a bunch of other things. My work life has followed three main phases - business to teaching to church. I was the Weekend Services Pastor for nine years at Northview Church, an awesome church in the Indianapolis suburbs. I used to work for Willow Creek, another awesome church in the Chicago area. Plus I've written for various magazines and websites, and other freelancy sorts of things... My life mission is to help the church be as excellent as it can be.
Oh yeah - the name's Greg. Greg Wallace. But not the race car driver or the major league pitcher or the British celebrity chef. Just the creative worship guy. Hi.
It's my hope that these ideas, musings, rants, raves, etc... will inspire you. They're just my opinions - but again, I hope that they'll help to inspire you. Because the church really, really needs inspired creative types. If you're a creative type (and most people are, deep-down), ask God for help. Then take any ideas that are useful to you - borrow them, nab them, use them, adapt them - and make them into something greater...
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