February 6, 2015
By Phil Maynard
(Part 2 of an 8-part blog series)
If you have identified a team of people passionate about worship at your church, and if you truly want to empower them to produce worship experiences that connect experientially with your congregation, the single greatest gift you can give this team is time. Time to think creatively, time to research and study, time to collaborate, and time to bring ideas to life.
By the way, this principle holds true whether your Creative Worship Team is 20 people or whether it is two. (In fact, it even holds true for one – if you’re a one-man-band for Jesus in a country glade with a guitar and a soapbox, you will still produce deeper and more meaningful worship experiences if you work in advance and have time to develop your ideas.)
People need time to think: time to let the relevant scripture percolate, time to surf the web to borrow great ideas from other worship teams, and time to talk things out and narrow ideas down. And if you are preaching by series (which arguably you should be), there are series-wide ideas that foster interactive congregational connection, and these take even longer lead time to develop.
People need time to prepare: time to practice music, write and rehearse scripts, buil