But this can feel somewhat lifeless for corporate worship. Plan a moment or two where you flow between a few songs. Medley hymns with modern choruses. Flow into only bridge or chorus parts of certain songs. Build momentum through medleys. Videos — Creative videos can add nice life to a worship set. If you have the team, attempt to create your own. Spoken Word — An evening full of songs can become overwhelming. Why not try a spoken word, dramatic reading? It could be of a Scripture verse or something original.
Prayer Stations — Create stations throughout the sanctuary for people to go and pray. Leave open canvases for people to paint. Have tables with a prayer focus on the nations. Get creative and unique to your particular congregation. Communion — This can be done corporately or in stations throughout the room. Question: What other creative ideas would you add to this list?
You can leave a comment by clicking here. Once again, Thanks David! We had a great night of AWEsome worship in a service just like this not too long ago and we are planning to do it again.
We integrated several of the suggestions you made above and they really did make for a special night that many in our congregation often ask when we are doing the next one. Based on our experience, I would add a couple of other elements people may want to include. One thing we wanted to do was include the arts in our service. So we had someone set up with just a light on their Easel as they painted during the worship service whatever the Lord put on their heart.
It was beautiful and moving to look over at that while we were worshiping. Lastly, we are hoping to plan an Evangelistic Worship Night next time. As always, thanks for sharing!! Hey John, those are some great ideas. We just had our first every worship night last May for Pentecost and we are planning our next one for the beginning of December. Since I hurt my back I can only go about a half hour so we had to cut back to 4 songs.
Here's our format : hope this helps Forgive my terminologies ok? Happy Song Old 2. Happy Song or Mellow Song New - will be the succeeding week's first song if response is good 3. Song related directly to the message closing prayer then we sing bridge and chorus 2x again.
Happy Song May be new or old - will be the succeeding week's last song depending on the response 6. Happy Song Old. I share your back pain - just had two spine surgeries in the past 4 months. We are mostly in the "fixed time" camp in the sense that we have a formula that is used most of the time: 1 Open with modern worship song 2 Prayer 3 Two more modern worship songs 5 Announcements etc. For our morning service we tend to run as follows: The whole service runs for 1hr 15mins usually, rarely beyond 1hr 30 or else the kids group leaders can get stuck!
I greet them 2 fast songs 1 moderate song 2 slow songs free worship and time to hear from the Holy Spirit pastor closes offertory preaching altar call and appropriate song pastor closes singing time totals min depending on free worship our former pastor was always telling me to shorten the singing. I will be praying for you. God Bless you. The one challenge I would offer is that this kinda presupposes that you are attending worship as a consumer and are only coming for what will give you what you want.
I would challenge you to try to see beyond yourself and your preferences a little more. Sing a top song or 4 of them for the sake of that person who is not familiar with church music and who finds singing a little weird, except that at least it sounds like something they might have heard on the radio. Choosing to sing a song for the sake of your neighbor who likes that song despite your distaste for it may just be more worshipful than raising your arms and closing your eyes and singing to Jesus with reckless abandon.
I know people who come late because they feel participation is not really that meaningful the way we now always do things. I think we are at a place where people of all ages long for something more authentic, participatory, and creative. Young adults do not seemingly crave a show on Sunday. We began dropping stage volume and teasing out the congregations voice at youth group and it works… is beautiful, inspiring, participatory, and can soar in ways that a few mic-ed people NEVER can. I fought for years to have the concert-style worship … and we enjoyed it, but we inadvertently killed congregational singing….
The upcoming generation does not need or want loud…. Ironically, it was the youth groups that led us into this current popular style… and it may well be the youth groups that get sick of it and revert back to singing together in a way that has an ancient precedent… It may be a priesthood of the believer thing… LET US PLAY TOO! Our voices matter! Pleasr tell me examples of where megachurches are moving back toward a style of worship where the worship leaders serve the congregation by helping their voices be heard uppermost in the room rather than being so loud the team drowns them out.
As one who spends an average hours preparing and practicing for a minute organ prelude once a month for our blended service, it is frustrating but not unusual to have my worship offering talked over, or have someone fiddling with the praise band instruments during it.
I know other churches where no one moves during the organ playing — and claps after it. Two extremes — much like in my professional field of education — we are always swinging to the extremes.
Appreciate both the article and the comments. Music should always be a meaningful part of the worship service. At our church everything is coordinated for what ever Sunday it is in the church year.
Hymns, the choir, the handbell choir, prelude, offertory, postlude, as it should be. All I can say is — major squirm factor. The body has a function and building up one another by speaking to one another in song is a function more ancient than the three point sermon ever was. The EC has connections to my denomination, the Moravian Church.
Ours has been a four-part harmony singing faith for almost six hundred years. The hymns, whether classic or contemporary, are chosen for their message and feel that is consistent with the Scriptures and the message. They are never picked randomly or just because somebody even me likes them.
As leaders, we need to value the opinion of every person on the team. Members of the worship team need to know that their opinion means something to the leader. The Bible says that where there are many advisors, victory is sure see Proverbs I challenge leaders to view every team member as an advisor in some way. Everyone can contribute something. Big decisions are still up to the leader, but a little extra advice never hurts.
A leader who makes every decision on his own, never asking for a second opinion, is a weak leader. A majority vote never rules: In the end, God will hold the leader, not the whole team, responsible for a job well done or poorly done. So how a leader fulfills his leadership role is important — but equally important is how well that leader builds and utilizes the team that surrounds him. In fact, the gifts of the Spirit 1 Corinthians should be able to freely operate during praise and worship as God sees fit.
People should get saved, healed, delivered from addictions and oppression, strengthened, and encouraged in their faith. I encourage you to pray for these gifts to operate as you lead worship. So pray and seek to be yielded as an instrument to usher in His presence in your worship. This is true in the present as it was in the Old Testament.
When Solomon dedicated the temple, as the musicians played, the glory of God filled the temple 2 Chronicles , God is the same yesterday, today, and forever see Hebrews What He did then, under the Old Covenant, He can do today in your church as well as in your life, your family, your city or community, and even in a nation. See Ezekiel Our very lives are dependent on the Lord, and enough of Him is never enough! We were created to fellowship with Him, and one of the ways we do that is through our worship.
Our assignment as worship leaders is to assist others in this experience and to fulfill that assignment and calling with excellence.
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