Articles for Worship & Creative

Centralized and decentralized worship are both biblical and necessary if we are to faithfully love God and love our neighbors as we love ourselves. One can’t survive without the other.

Worship leaders are often a little eccentric. After all, we are musicians, with artistic dispositions and complex temperaments and unique ways of expressing ourselves. If there are tattoos in the sanctuary, chances are, the worship leader is the one wearing them.

Music ministers are all too familiar with research suggesting that choir members singing ranks with coughing as a coronavirus spreader.

Evangelicals don’t want anything that has to be dispensed by a religious practitioner getting in the way of the individual believer hearing the Word and responding to it. 

What would happen if we lived with the passion we sing?

Is God more an event that we attend in order to accumulate knowledge or is he a being whom we meet with or even clash with?

Church online is direct-to-camera. Church online is interactive. Church online is an intentional effort to disciple a growing online congregation. Streaming video is passive.

Here are three improvements I've discovered for leading worship online that will remove some of that fear and discomfort and help you engage with your unseen church family.