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#153: Elias Dummer on Serving the Kingdom, The City Harmonic, & Entrepreneurship [Podcast]

SERVING THE KINGDOM

You have to define success in terms of the Kingdom of God.” – Elias Dummer

An honor to welcome Elias Dummer back to the Beyond Sunday Podcast for a second time! Elias is the frontman for the band The City Harmonic as well as a Worship Pastor and owner of a marketing agency.

This interview is bittersweet as it surrounds the final release from the band. We talk all about The City Harmonic, why they broke up, worship, songwriting, radio play, entrepreneurship, the music business and more.

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Freedom In Worship: What Does It Mean?

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As worship leaders, we talk a lot about freedom. We want our churches to be free to worship. But what does it actually mean?

Is freedom the liberty one feels to wield a “Lion of Judah” flag across the front of the church? Is freedom a boisterous dance? Is freedom the right to be crazy? What does it mean?

We all love to quote 2 Corinthians 3:17:

Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.”

We’ve taken that to mean, “When we are in church we can do whatever the heck we want. Run, dance, shout, sing, sway, moan, & groan.”

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with letting go of hindrances to expressive worship. But expressive worship on its own isn’t anything particularly Christian. Other religions worship expressively.

Remember Elijah and prophets of Baal? Here’s what happened as they called upon their god:

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