David W. Manner's Blog: Worship Evaluation, page 13
July 20, 2020
Economize: Worship Service Verbal Transitions
If churches have learned anything during these last few months of online worship services it is that words and music had to be synthesized. A succinct, refined, and consolidated economy of sermons and songs was necessary since the service time online was abbreviated and attention spans were diminished. Those lessons shouldn’t be lost as worship leaders plan and lead regathered worship services.
Worship leader verbal transitions that connect songs and other service elements are vital to achievin...
July 15, 2020
July 13, 2020
Killing the Spirit of Our Pastors
Most of us haven’t fully realized the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual demands required to serve as a pastor during this season of uncertainty. We are often aware of the investments those in ministry made in our own lives during the shutdown and reboot of church ministries. What we haven’t calculated, however, is the cumulative time, energy, and stress those investments have required when multiplied by the entire membership population of our congregation.
But it isn’t the unprecedente...
July 8, 2020
June 24, 2020
June 22, 2020
Worship and the Racial Divide
Imagine your church filled with people of multiple colors, nationalities, economic levels, and political beliefs all worshiping God together. The problem with that scenario is that most of us imagined how great it could be as long as they made the needed changes to worship the same way we do.
Not in my style may really and truly mean not my kind of people, except when it comes time for the yearly youth group trip to Mexico. Why are we willing to go outside the church to diversify when we are fa...
June 17, 2020
June 10, 2020
June 8, 2020
Singing in Regathered Worship: Want or Need?
Want is something we desire, hope for, or wish for. Need is something essential to survive. We want to sing both congregationally and chorally in our worship services as we regather but we don’t need to sing for worship to occur. So even if we want to sing and can’t or can’t as much, we still need to find other ways to worship.
Singing is an expression given to us so that we might offer it as a gift to God in worship but it certainly isn’t the only expression. So considering additional worship...
June 3, 2020
Worship Word Wednesday
