What makes a great worship song?
1. Theology
2. Singability
3. Clearity
4. Stirring of the Soul
How do you know when your song is finished?
Chris’ secret weapon : CO-WRITING
Worship Planning & Networking for the Online Generation
Background
Worship Tools
Forums and Communities –
Social bookmarking –
Blogging
The Ultimate Tool
The Word – youversion.com
Holy Spirit
Sorry for not having many notes to post but Chris Tomlin’s session on song writing but it was so good I didn’t take a lot of notes, I was sucked in. But as far as Fred McKinnon’s break-out session, there was lot’s of note taking. Here is a link to his notes on Web 2.0, it was an one hour talk about how to take worship to the web. Israel Houghton, Tommy Walker, and CiCi Winans led us in worship tonight. Over-all thought on conference, REFRESHING! If I could add a second thought, ENCOURAGING! It was so great to hear that most every church in America is going through transition…..worship community we are not alone. God is good and His mercy never ends.
When God’s shuts a door He always opens another, but hell is in the hallway.
Heroes aren’t made, they are cornered.
It takes no expertise or skill to make a church grow old; all the work, challenge is keeping it young.
Things to help build a multi-generation platform
1. All songs overlap – across campus
2. Include youth leaders on main platform
3. Song 20 yrs. or Older – every service
4. Inviting the younger generations/creativity
Worship leading is a pastoral ministry
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow morning and you knew the people in your midst were going to die, what songs would you lead?
Gordon MacDonald
Also I learned tons of great stuff from Shaun Groves about being a blog awesomer. Working on several things now.
Anyways here are some pics from tonight’s worship:
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- Gateway leading us into God’s presence.
We are one of the only sources of influence who still use words as a viable source of communication.
We live in a orange world. Covered then split into segments that have been organized. We were taught to turn the Bible into an orange, breaking it up into verses and chapters, losing the stories and songs. We need to live in an apple world…..eating things whole.
It’s not your job to bring the Scriptures to life, your job is to help people come alive to the Scriptures.
The most powerful forces in the universe are physical, material things. Your biggest challenge is to break down the materialistic control over peoples lives and help them understand Spirit is more powerful.
- Leonard Sweet
As a worship leader we offer explanations of who God is, which means you have to be a great Theologian .
Praise must be manifested or declared, it is an outward manifestation. Praise is a physical demonstration of a spiritual reality.
Praise is not a result of our feelings, praise trumps feelings.
Hypocrisy is not when your actions are inconsistent with your feelings, hypocrisy is when your actions are inconsistent with your convictions
A good worship experience is always marked by people deciding to worship God.
– Ross Parsley
Don’t be a wagon wheel leader, the center piece that holds all the spokes together. Alow the team to take care of themselves
– Laura Story
David’s beef wasn’t the fact the Goliath was challenging Israel, it was that the Name and Fame of Jesus Christ was being challenged
– Marcos Witt
Hope you enjoyed all the tidbits from my experiences here at NWLC Austin. It’s been great so far. Let me know if you want to hear more from anyone in particular. I’ll continue to blog highlights for you through Friday. Also if you really want to read some stuff from a real blogger go to FredMcKinnon. Met him today over lunch, he host theworshipcommunity.com, way cool.