Transcript Growing in Worship

Growing in Worship
A Media Ministry Prospective
Impact this generation
with the Gospel by using
culturally relevant methods of
communication
Being Prayer-Centered
• Multimedia can complement your prayer ministry
and help people pray more strategically and
enthusiastically.
• Project on screen a list of congregational prayer
needs, pictures of people you are praying for, and/or
Scripture texts to pray over certain situations can
help people stay focused during a prayer meeting.
• Add backgrounds or still images to enhance a
worshipful atmosphere.
• Powerful videos are available from para church
organizations such as Prayer for the Persecuted
Church, AD2000 and Beyond, and Wycliffe Bible
Translators or perhaps your own denomination.
Being Worship-Centered
• Multimedia can be the means to inspire
worship with beautiful scenes from God’s
creation projected on a large screen
• Resources such as slides, backgrounds or
Worship DVDs are available. Video clips,
drama and creative readings also add to
the multimedia experience.
Being Accessible
• Have monitors in the foyer which give
basic information about the church’s
beliefs, activities and building.
• Use video as part of the worship service to
increase emotional accessibility.
• Tools such as sermon illustrators and
drama increase the level of comfort and
understanding for this generation of
churchgoers.
Having a Defined, Measurable
Purpose
• Multimedia can help communicate your mission
statement to the congregation.
• A well-produced video presenting your mission
statement and goals can generate excitement
about your vision.
• If you don’t have in-house production
capabilities, contact a local video production
company for more information on having a video
custom-made for your church.
Be Relational
• Use video to promote the different cell
groups in your church - have actual
footage of the group and its activities.
• Use sermon illustrators to promote
discussions within small group settings.
• Man-on-the-Street segments are
especially great discussion-starters!
Using Team Leadership
• There are many valuable audio/visual
products on the market for leadership
training.
• For example, check out injoy.com for a
variety of leadership materials and
Bethany Cell Church Network (bccn.com)
for cell leadership training.
Reach out Locally and Globally
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Multimedia as a evangelistic tool
Thief in the Night series of the 70’s
the Jesus Film.
to attract and connect with our postmodern
generation
• Global missions can be greatly enhanced with video
resources, videos showing your own missionaries at
work, or use the many resources available through
organizations such as The Voice of the Martyrs, The
Caleb Project and The William Carey Library.
• In either case, the power of video can translate into
more powerful prayer, giving, and personal
involvement in world missions.
Team Planning
and Worship Development
• 1. Study your people.
People have needs; they also have ideas and worship
preferences. Find out where they hurt, and help them discover
or rediscover God at the same time.
• 2. Ready. Fire. Aim.
Take a shot at new stuff in a small way. See if you hit the target,
and then aim accordingly.
• 3. Create a vision for your worship.
Know where you are going and how to get there.
Proverbs 28:18. Make your vision work by teamwork. Create
ownership, and multiply the buy-in through vision casting.
Kinds of Worship Services
Charismatic
"Praise and worship movement“
upbeat encounter seeking
Boomer
"Charismatic-lite." stops short of full
charismatic worship.
Gospel Revivalist
Seeker
Pedagogical
Word & Table
Old Time Gospel Hour style
Cowboy/Casual
Emerging
Blended
half band-jam and half square dance
reaching the unchurched
Teaching and preaching focused
hymns with heavy theological content
and weekly communion
reflective worship style/postmodern
attempts to produce a worship format
with something for everybody.
• 4. Reignite your passion for God.
As the Church of Laodicea reminds us, if we have no fire, no
passion, we leave of bad taste in the mouth of God (Rev. 3:16).
• 5. Never kill an idea before it’s written
down. Brainstorming – if every time you hear an idea you
immediately give it a thumbs-down, it cultivates timidity within
your team.
• 6. Don't Count on Success But Never
Expect Failure God doesn’t ask us to be successful.
He just asks us to be faithful.
• 7. Do something each month in worship
that frightens you.
If you want to grow, prepare to risk
• 8. Think about one person in the crowd
and plan a worship service that allows
that person to worship.
Minister distinctively to one person in the body, and chances are
the ripple effect will transform the entire church.
• 9. Don’t try to turn Smallville into Willow
Creek in one month.
Jesus is patient with you. Be patient with your people. Lead them
through the process, and help them understand the reasons for
change.
• 10. Don’t be afraid of emotions, but don’t
try to manufacture or manipulate the
worshipers’ emotions either.
Our obsession should be to bring people into an
encounter with God.
• 11. Don’t take the name of the Lord in
vain. When we lead in worship and plan worship in a team,
perhaps the quickest way to sabotage the work is to give vague
vetoes and blame it on God.
• 12. Maintain your standard.
Want to have an impact? Discover the obsession for ministry.
• 13. Read your plan out loud.
Most people will not read your plan. They will hear your plan.
• 14. Exile the left brain when beginning
your work. Create without assessing what you
are doing while you are doing it. After your artistic
work is done, then begin the tough, painful left brain
work. It’s important late and fatal early.
• 15. Keep toys close to you.
When you have the opportunity, play! Have some fun as a team.
• 16. Don’t just sit there. Write
something. Make a goal to write something everyday.
Just keep the pen moving!
• 17. Set small goals and reward yourself
when you achieve them.
Let everyone on the team in on small victories and
achievements. As in the story of the 10 lepers, don’t
be like the nine who received transformation and
forgot to thank God.
Have few secret victories.
• 18. Avoid lip worship.
Lip worship is worship that is totally auditory. Don’t just say
worship, do it!
• 19. Avoid tip worship.
Tip worship is worship in which the driving force of worship is
life application with little Bible.
• 20. Avoid rip worship.
Rip worship is when we load the Body down with guilt and
shame. Our duty in worship is not to rip the congregation or to
use worship as our personal bully pulpit.
• 21. Avoid flip worship.
Flip worship is done without acknowledging what a vast and
important responsibility worship leadership really is.
• 22. Avoid hip worship.
Hip worship is totally (as the old saying goes) from the hip.
Things unexpectedly happen—but shooting from the hip will do
little toward developing trust in the ensemble.
• 23. If you’re in it for the money, go home.
“The Pastor is not a CEO”
• 24. Be prepared to record ideas while driving.
Carry a notebook to record ideas when you are going through
your day. Take a micro-cassette player with you.
• 25. Once you’re through reading, then you’re
through growing. What book is next in line after you
finish the one you’re on right now?
• 26. Prevent right brain freeze.
Pull yourself out of the ordinary and jump start your creative
thinking.
• 27. Early planning gives you more room for
improvement.
In ministry you’ll usually lose when you employ a no-huddle
approach in worship.
• 28. Write ideas without thinking of the
method you’ll use in the final process.
Great team planners see the message first.
• 29. Weave your worship and plan your
pauses.
When transitions aren’t attended to, the flow becomes jerky
and predictable. Reflective times can be insightful and emotive
but they should not be awkward.
• 30. Prepare well.
If a worship team is prepared, then the platform people are
liberated from the tyranny of self-consciousness and escorted
into the presence of God along with those who worship.
• 31. Realize that worship is difficult.
Worship is a lifelong work of art. It is truly a process, not a
destination. We are being transformed from glory to glory to
glory.
• 32. Use technology while keeping in mind
that only you can prevent lousy
workmanship.
Leaning on bells and whistles to replace perspiration is a
formula for failure.
• 33. Become an addict.
Become addicted to glorifying God.
• 34. Every now and then, do a postmortem of
the worship experience.
What did we do well/badly? Where could we have
improved? Learn from mistakes, and as a team, talk
about how best to avoid the mistakes. Ask these
questions:
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Did it work?
How could we have improved?
Did we offer people an opportunity to be transformed?
What feedback did you receive?
Are we in a rut or on a roll?
Did we, as leaders, worship?
Did we improve the mix by using more than two or three
communication strategies?
• Pray, asking God to continue transforming people through the
experience, worship, and truths that we experienced.
Online Resources
• Check out these sites for countless ideas and
resources… mycreativeteam.org
Network211.com