Song Leading Essentials According to the National Congregations Study of churches across America, 66% of churches fewer than 100 people in their congregations. Most of the time in these smaller churches, the pastor will conduct all the services, direct the song leading, do all the preaching, handle all the visiting and counseling, while also taking… Read more
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6 Reasons Congregational Singing Is Important
Benefits of Congregational Singing If you were to step into the average church service, you would find many similarities in how we worship. One of the most important elements in our worship is our congregational singing. Sadly, congregational singing in many churches falls short of bringing praise to God. The singing is no longer vibrant… Read more
How to Achieve a Better Choral Blend | Conducting Tips
Most of us would agree when singing together we blend sounds more beautiful than we could make individually. For that reason, you should spend time as director working on tone quality and choral blend. You will find it is well worth it. Good blend, though, is still the exception, rather than the rule. Therefore, why is… Read more
Spiritual Preparation in the Life of a Church Music Director
The spiritual preparation of the heart is the number one quality of a good church music director. It takes a sound relationship with the Lord to lead others and effectively care for the the music ministry of the church. A few days ago I ran across a copy of the Boy Scout handbook. It bought… Read more
Selecting Worship Music | Does God Care What Method We Use? Part 2
In our previous article concerning worship music we discussed in detail God’s method of worship. Let’s continue that thought and look at what God would have us reject concerning our methods of worship. 1. God Wants Us to Reject Our Own Methods of Worship Lev. 10:1-3 helps us understand this truth; “And Nadab and Abihu… Read more
Verses You Didn’t Know Were About Worship Music (Part II)
In the last post, we saw how Paul made a deliberate decision to exclude the human tools of rhetoric from his preaching of the gospel of Christ. He knew that by adding a heavy emotional pull to his evangelism, he would see people come to Christ simply because they were caught up in a state… Read more
Selecting Worship Music | Does God Care What Method I Use?
How we worship is important. But, does God care about our methodology in how we use and select worship music today? This is a question that we often do not ponder upon enough or dismiss quickly since we erroneously tend to assume that the Bible does not answer this question. Christians are all too eager… Read more