My church, like many, has two different styles of services on Sunday morning. Our first service is essentially a “blended” service (by the way, I hate the word service but I’m using it here because it is a common usage for a gathering of believers on a weekend) with a mix of contemporary songs and…
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Missing the Point
I read an interesting post earlier this week by Tim Stevens about the way one church in Mississippi is organizing their weekend worship and music. Essentially they hire a different worship leader each weekend instead of paying one or two people to be the worship pastor (s). Here is how Tim explains their strategy: A…
A View From the Top
As I mentioned last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about hierarchical leadership in the church and the need for the church to move toward a shared leadership model. Here are some things I’ve read that have stood out to me: “A leader who leverages power is illegitimate. A leader who relies only on authority…
Shared Leadership
I’ve written a couple of guests post that went up this week that I thought I’d share with you. Both are written on the topic of shared leadership but come at the topic from different angles. I figured all of you would enjoy reading some of those posts and joining in the conversation that is…
How I Celebrate Halloween
I’ve never been a big fan of Halloween. Growing up, sure, I loved it. What kid didn’t? But ever since high school or so I’ve always hated the dark side of Halloween and how its promotes evil things as ok if only for a day. So this year I’m going to focus my attention on…
You Choose
In my Principles/Practices of Worship class yesterday we had a good discussion about hymns, drums, new music, and the worship wars. It got me thinking about this one question. You might think there is only one good answer to this question but I absolutely don’t believe that is true. And even though you might say…