What if you lived in a city in the tropics but the city had no roads? You'd have to use a machete (large cleaver-like knife) to clear a path every time you needed to connect with someplace else.
Worship leaders can feel at times like they need a machete to hack their way through the service - trying to connect parts of a worship service that aren't coming together easily. We see it as an unplanned ramble, prayer, or speech, but behind it all is simply a pursuit to create connection and flow from one part of the service to another (on the fly).
Worship leaders can feel at times like they need a machete to hack their way through the service - trying to connect parts of a worship service that aren't coming together easily. We see it as an unplanned ramble, prayer, or speech, but behind it all is simply a pursuit to create connection and flow from one part of the service to another (on the fly).
A great worship leader uses the nuance of liturgy to help people see meaning and connection, and better understand the roadmap of God's plan of salvation in their lives through worship.
Conversely, using liturgy (the intentional ordering and progression of a service) to make connection and flow happen is like a city building roads in the tropics to make travel easier. In the absence of liturgies developed in a hymnal, practitioners of a modern style must work hard to develop a helpful, and theologically faithful service flow. Therefore, rather than spending time each week sharpening your machete and working on your hacking techniques, consider building and following liturgical roads.
This means the intentional development of liturgy and service flow in advance so that movement from one element of worship to another is natural and planned. A great worship leader uses the nuance of liturgy to help people see meaning and connection, and better understand the roadmap of God's plan of salvation in their lives through worship.
This means the intentional development of liturgy and service flow in advance so that movement from one element of worship to another is natural and planned. A great worship leader uses the nuance of liturgy to help people see meaning and connection, and better understand the roadmap of God's plan of salvation in their lives through worship.
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