When you enter someone's home for the first time, you can tell within fifteen seconds whether the living room creates warm or cold impressions. The same is true for churches. Here are a few tips to warm your church atmosphere:
1. Train greeters. We train our greeters and ushers in how to make people feel comfortable, and, equally important, to be comfortable themselves. It's better to do without greeters ...
The worship leader your church wants has to have more than just great technical skills. He or she also must have a heart for the congregation and how music fits into the entire worship experience. These are some qualities to look for, and to avoid, in a worship leader.
The Good and the Bad
For many people choosing a church, worship leaders have become a more important factor than preachers. ...
These principles can be adapted to almost any congregation to encourage better singing.
Know Why You Sing
Each Sunday, determine if the purpose of the service is worship, instruction, fellowship, or evangelism. While all these functions of the body of Christ may overlap, or may sometimes occur simultaneously, try to focus on one or two functions. After you determine the function, make sure ...
In music ministry, leaders have to keep a lot of things in the air at the same time: spiritual sensitivity, personal preparation, attention to group dynamics, thoughtful song selection, and full-bodied accompaniment Here's a mental checklist I use for our congregational singing:
1. Are the songs meaningful? Every worship leader needs to have the gentle and engaging sense of ...
The average person is reluctant to project his or her own voice unless surrounded by a host of other voices. One key is to create a comfort zone for the congregation, an atmosphere devoid of tension, where a spirit of warmth and friendliness pervades. How do you create this kind of comfort zone?
By your own personality. If you are friendly, warm, accessible, and confident, your congregation ...
Studies have shown that the main factor in musical taste is familiarity. People like what they know. The pop music business operates on this principle, and we have all experienced hearing a song on the radio that sounds oddly familiar and brings up memories and feelings that one can't quite place. Some promoter has worked hard to place that song in a movie precisely because it will feel ...
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