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Freedom To Change Lyrics?

September 30, 2010 by 23 Comments

One of the most controversial thread topics at The Worship Community, and one that is revisited time and time again, is whether or not we have the freedom to change lyrics to songs that we use for corporate worship if, for whatever reason, we feel that a lyric might not work well in our gathering.

One of the most “questioned” lyrics in the last few years has been the “Sloppy wet kiss” line from John Mark McMillian’s How He Loves. We have a great example of a well-known worship leader/touring artist (David Crowder) changing the lyric to “Unforeseen kiss.” This article isn’t presented to dive into the merit, theological soundness or usefulness of that specific lyric, but to address the broader issue at hand:

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From The Community: Sharing Your Sunday Setlists

September 28, 2010 by 2 Comments

We have a great community of worship leaders, team members, and worshipers in general here at TWC. It’s our pleasure to highlight some of them from time to time.

What is Our Sunday Setlists Network: These bloggers post each week about their experiences, song selection, tech set ups, mistakes, success, etc on our weekly Sunday Setlists series. When the Sunday Setlist post goes live, people from all over the world chime in with their experiences! [Read more...]

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Sunday Setlists #114 – September 26, 2010

September 26, 2010 by 12 Comments

Thank you so much for sharing your Sunday experiences with us!

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of:

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Welcome to the 114th consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists”. The purpose of “Sunday Setlists” is to share a recap of your worship services. What songs did you use, what arrangements? What worked really well and what didn’t work as well as you’d like? What issues did you have preparing? What is the sermon series? How about creative elements used in the service? You don’t have to be the pastor or worship leader to participate. We would really love to get reviews from the perspective of those in our congregations each week.

Click here to receive an email reminder each week to participate.

Click here to view the archives of “Sunday Setlists” posts.

To participate:

1. Blog about your worship services this week. In that blog, mention that you are participating in “Sunday Setlists” at TheWorshipCommunity.Com and link back to this post.

(http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/sunday-setlists-114/)

2. If you don’t have a blog, leave your own recap right here by simply adding a comment to the discussion thread below.

3. Share your information (links, media, etc) and encourage others to do the same.

Oh … and whatever you do … don’t forget to leave a comment below! If you aren’t a member of TheWorshipCommunity.Com, you can register quickly, or just use the “Facebook Connect” login!

Share your Experience:

1. If you blogged about your worship recap, add the link in the “Mister Linky” below. Be sure that the link goes directly to the specific entry about this week’s “Sunday Setlists” post, and not to your blog’s homepage.

2. If you use Twitter, use the #sundaysetlists hashtag. Your “tweet” will show in the box below soon. You can even tag videos or images with the #sundaysetlists hashtag.

3. Regardless, don’t forget to leave a comment in the discussion area. Subscribe to the thread so you can come back and see what others are doing.

Links: (add a link to your “Sunday Setlists” blog post below)

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Pursuing Fitness & Leading Worship: A Worship Leader’s Insights

September 24, 2010 by 7 Comments

Regimen is an outdoor training program here at the beach on St. Simons Island. This is group training – some would call it boot camp, but not quite.

Over and over during the last 1-1/2 years I have observed principles that our trainers are using that easily carryover into worship leadership, or leadership of any type. [Read more...]

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Teaching Moments: Setting The Table

September 20, 2010 by 7 Comments

This is not a doctrine or a set in stone formula for worship leading, but just a small little insight that I’d like to share with you.

When I talk with worship teams/leaders about “purpose” one of the big things that I love to linger on is the idea that we exist to SERVE. Ultimately, we are doing what we do to serve God, to bring honor and glory to His name. At the same time, we do what we do to serve the body, the gathering, the collective, the congregation. [Read more...]

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Sunday Setlists #113 – September 19, 2010

September 19, 2010 by 10 Comments

Thank you so much for sharing your Sunday experiences with us!

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of:

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Welcome to the 113th consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists”. The purpose of “Sunday Setlists” is to share a recap of your worship services. What songs did you use, what arrangements? What worked really well and what didn’t work as well as you’d like? What issues did you have preparing? What is the sermon series? How about creative elements used in the service? You don’t have to be the pastor or worship leader to participate. We would really love to get reviews from the perspective of those in our congregations each week.

Click here to receive an email reminder each week to participate.

Click here to view the archives of “Sunday Setlists” posts.

To participate:

1. Blog about your worship services this week. In that blog, mention that you are participating in “Sunday Setlists” at TheWorshipCommunity.Com and link back to this post.

(http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/sunday-setlists-113/)

2. If you don’t have a blog, leave your own recap right here by simply adding a comment to the discussion thread below.

3. Share your information (links, media, etc) and encourage others to do the same.

Oh … and whatever you do … don’t forget to leave a comment below! If you aren’t a member of TheWorshipCommunity.Com, you can register quickly, or just use the “Facebook Connect” login!

Share your Experience:

1. If you blogged about your worship recap, add the link in the “Mister Linky” below. Be sure that the link goes directly to the specific entry about this week’s “Sunday Setlists” post, and not to your blog’s homepage.

2. If you use Twitter, use the #sundaysetlists hashtag. Your “tweet” will show in the box below soon. You can even tag videos or images with the #sundaysetlists hashtag.

3. Regardless, don’t forget to leave a comment in the discussion area. Subscribe to the thread so you can come back and see what others are doing.

Links: (add a link to your “Sunday Setlists” blog post below)

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Featured Song: Came To Save – Joshua Seller

September 17, 2010 by 3 Comments

Music & Lyrics by Joshua Seller, Nate Smith, Matt Armstrong / Joshua Seller Music/Centricty Publishing/Brentwood-Benson Publishing, Inc. admin. by PraiseCharts Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

USA iTunes: HERE | Canada iTunes: HERE[Read more...]

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Connect With TWC On Twitter

September 15, 2010 by 1 Comment

Join our network of worshipers from all over the world over on twitter:

twitter.com/theworshipcomm

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Dealing With Criticism & Encouraging Others

September 15, 2010 by 4 Comments

Posted with permission from EncouragingMusic.com (the worship resource site of Rick Muchow).

Dealing with criticism is part of ministry. For all the complements and encouragement I get, just a little bit of criticism can get me feeling discouraged if I’m not careful.

Here are three ways to deal with criticism in a healthy way:

 

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We Are One – A Church Story

September 13, 2010 by 7 Comments

Reposted with permission from The Gospel Coalition.

Today was a monumental, historic day at Coral Ridge.

For many years Coral Ridge had two very distinct worship services–one contemporary and one traditional. The result was the unintentional development of two different churches under one roof. It wasn’t healthy. So back at the end of Spring we started talking about what we could do to unify our one large church.

Given our desire to re-plant Coral Ridge around a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the gospel we concluded that we needed to make a change. After all, since the gospel is the good news that God reconciles us not only to himself but also to one another, the church should be breaking down walls, not erecting them. God intends the church to be demonstrating what community looks like when God’s reconciling power is at work.

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