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You Tell Us: The “Win” In Worship Ministry

July 18, 2012 by 12 Comments

We’ve heard over the years that a “win” is something to aim for in ministry (and anything really). We’ve been encouraged to define the win, shoot for the win, and celebrate the win! This is a great concept and one that is simple and really easy to apply in our organizations.

Today, we want YOU the COMMUNITY to tell us what your win is. What does it look like? How do you clarify it for your teams? How do you keep your teams engaged in pursuing those wins? How do you celebrate them?

Instead of a long, challenging or encouraging post from a contributor, my hope is that the comments will be long and filled with great insights from YOU the COMMUNITY!

We love your voice and I’d love to hear what a win looks like for you in your places of ministry!

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  • http://www.fredmckinnon.com fmckinnon

    I’ll kick this off. A win for us is having a worship service where people are engaged across the lines of generations. We try to be multi-generational in our worship, so we realize some folks may not care for a certain song or style, but we hope that we craft a service so that everyone has something they can resonate with. Also, the win is established when there is life-change.

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  • Aaron Milbourn

    I am in my first week of my official worship ministry here at Seymour Christian Church. I have played and led numerous times over the last 5 years and absolutely feel a peace which brings so much joy to my life. I agree with fmckinnon about his “win” and I think it is an honor to lead a group of people in worship to have each individual connect in their own way… and to think we are in a line of hundreds and thousands of years of worshipping, its a huge responsibility and one not to take for granted. My “win” would have to be the uncontainable joy and peace in worshipping. I always think of how enormous the God we serve really is.. I can’t wrap my thoughts around it.. just realizing that the God of the universe, who has made thousands of galaxies, suns, stars, etc has grace and love for a sinner like me. This is the “win” for me and I think realizing the love story of the gospel and knowing the love the Savior has for me sets up for a truly awesome worship experience.

  • http://adamranck.com/ Adam Ranck

    Thanks for this post as it caused me to think about this, which I needed to.

    I believe the worship ministry’s large vision is to help people connect or re-connect with God. So to me, the win would be any time someone genuinely “comes back to God” whether in their worship and adoration to God, in sacrifice, in repentance, in forgiveness and healed relationships, or life-change.

    We’d be able to celebrate the win when we hear and see the life-change that God has done in someone’s life. WIN!

    • Russ

      Thanks Adam! That IS a great win!

  • Trent

    Good topic–difficult to articulate without taking up tons of space and time, so I’ll keep it general. Several come to mind: Evidence that the worship is changing people’s lives in the congregation…that’s a win. Seeing the joy in a volunteer musician/team member when they have taken on a challenge and succeeded…that’s a win. Having the senior pastor/leadership’s blessing and trust…that’s a win. I totally agree with Fred’s observation too–people of every generation are engaged in worship together…that’s a huge win.

  • http://twitter.com/SaintLewis Shannon Lewis

    A “win” for me is ALWAYS simply to see a room full of people responding Biblically… that doesn’t mean, necessarily, uniformity – that everyone is responding the same – but that people are engaging with God (the Bible never instructs us to sit disinterestedly as an act of worship) in ways that affect the whole person; heart, mind, soul, & strength. Those are my “wins”.