Balance is (usually) something good to have. As the Good Book says, there is a time and a season for all things – so how do we strike a good balance in worship planning?
STYLE: Every worship leader has their “sweet spot” – the genre of music that they feel most comfortable in. It’s only natural that they would gravitate towards that style when they are in the process of planning worship services.However, choosing a song for a service simply because you sound good singing it is NOT a good example of worship planning. We serve an infinitely creative God that has created an incredible diversity of people, and it’s extremely unlikely that your favorite style of music will reach them all. We can’t be all things to all people, but neither should we only serve ourselves.
Try different styles. Have someone else lead. Use unusual instrumentation. If you normally have a small team up on a weekend, try a big team (or vice versa). Speaking of teams, having a team to help you plan will help to keep it from being the “you” show. Sometimes there does need to be a single guiding influence to give the service cohesion. But not all the time…
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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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