Matt 22:32 “He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.”

# ways I lead worship in a life-giving and exciting way.

One of my core values is the worship should be life giving…

When we come together and begin to celebrate in worship, it should make a positive impression on people who don’t understand it. It shouldn’t leave them saying. “That was weird.” But instead, “I don’t know what that was, but I can’t wait to be involved in it again!” We don’t accomplish this by dumbing down our presentation and expression, but buy cranking up the energy and giving more

Too often our worship services are boring. I would even say that some of our cool and relevant churches have boring worship.

Here are a few things I do to make sure we are having what I call Life Giving Worship which simply means energetic worship.

1. I put emphasis on fast songs over slow songs.

2. Everyone is doing something. No one on stage can stand still.

3. The people on stage must smile.

4. I make lots of noise. Not every sound I make is a “pretty” sound. Nope, I go for dirty, funky, nasty Earth Wind and Fire, Michael Jackson kinda noises.

5. We let the band rival the voices in the mix. I hear the “people need to hear the words” garbage from time to time. The words are on a giant screen. Let your mix be energetic.

6. I dance, and encourage others too… not silly dance, but move with the music… not to be confused with basic swaying.

7. Do what feels good. It’s not about feelings… bla bla bla, but I’ll take feels good over feels bad any day.

Just a few things we do around here!

Blessings.