Worship leaders/pastors/vocalists – don’t deviate from the melody, unless it’s a “listening only” song. The purpose of a worship song is for the congregation to be able to engage – to join together. If you mess with the melody, you throw them for a loop. This is especially true of hymns or Christmas Carols. The reason we mess with them is often that we are simply bored, and/or want to be artsy. Not needed – those songs have survived for generation after generation because they are good to begin with. Bringing the topic back to regular worship songs – I have found that if a song is coming across as boring or unengaging, is more often about how it is presented than how it is arranged [unless it’s just a bad song]. Keep it fresh by presenting it with passion.
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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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