Worship in HD

To piggyback on our past post, “Designing a Worship Service“, designing a worship service should happen with a dedicated, closed team of staff or volunteers (as the case may be).  There are four things I believe you need to do in order to effectively design your worship service:

1. Don’t only look to the future, you need to examine the past.  I think a meeting to design a worship service should start with this.  You need to look at what you’ve done before, how it was received, and whether or not you felt the desired goal was accomplished.  Start with the last month or just the last week.  Should you try that order again?  Should that new idea be a regular part of the service?  What went wrong?  What went right?  Let your past experiences guide your team in your pursuit of excellence.
2. Make sure to get the right people together.  Your team should be small, and should consist of people who control all aspects of the service.  Let your team members’ passion come forward, and let them each challenge the group to continually improve every aspect of the service.
3. Don’t leave God out of the equation.  It’s easy to be focused on the flow of creativity and ideas when putting together a worship service.  Don’t get me wrong, this is a time to be creative; but it is also a time to sense God’s leading in choosing songs, skits, videos, and all other aspects of the service.
4. Agree on a specific goal, an objective, for each service.  This may come from the sermon, or it may come from somewhere else like a powerful worship song, a touching video, or a compelling skit.  I believe you should design your service around that single, Main Idea .