Worship Podcast & Blog
Whether you like it or not, you are building a culture in your worship team.
If you’re not intentional, others will create it for you.
In today’s episode, I provide a teaching on intentional worship team culture as well as share an interview with Ryan Williams of River Valley Music.
We talk about their team’s culture at River Valley, their worship music, as well as the new Integrity Music release, One: A Worship Collective.
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If you lead worship, there’s a question you should be asking on a constant basis.
Not…what songs should I do?
What creative elements can I add?
How skinny is too skinny when it comes to jeans?
Should we use two electric guitars?
What loops are we going to use?
These questions are great, but there’s something that needs needs to come first. The problem is, so few are asking this.
We can be so caught in our worship subcultures that we don’t see clearly enough to ask this most important question.
A few weeks ago, I was stressed out of my mind.
I love when a plan comes together, but this wasn’t one of those moments.
I had a musician cancel, last minute. During the service, we lost track of the click. No one in the congregation seemed to engage with the songs.
My voice was weak and tired and I felt like everyone was staring me down in disgust. I swear I saw a few tomatoes fly past my head.
I wanted to crawl in a hole and forget this service ever happened. Ever been in a situation like this?
Today’s post is more of a poll than it is a teaching.
I want to know…what worship style are you?
Piano? Banjo? Organ? Guitar? Synth? Vocoder?
A few weeks ago I shared my criteria for selecting new songs as well as how I find new songs.
A friend of mine messaged me privately when I mentioned who the “staple” songwriters were that I look for.
You see, he leads worship with predominantly “Black Gospel” music. The most “crossover” artist he does is Israel Houghton. But he’s into songs from Judith Christie-McAllister, John P. Kee, William Murphy, Vashawn Mitchell, James Fortune, Charles Jenkins, Kurt Carr, Byron Cage, and Fred Hammond.
Me? These songwriters and artists aren’t even on my radar. But the question begs to be asked: should they be?