Rick Warren on Leadership in Worship
This is the final post of my series from Rick Warren’s teaching during our Worship Influencers’ Retreat. (See Rick Warren on Worship Leaders for more details and explanation.) Rick Warren on Leadership in Worship When you tell them to sing louder, you’re cheerleading them. That’s not leading. When we sing with passion, that’s what’s contagious. Saying I love to lead worship doesn’t impress me. Do you love the people you’re leading? 100% of leadership is authenticity and modeling. 3 times Paul...
read moreRick Warren on Context of Worship (4 Things We’ll Do In Heaven)
This is the 4th post in my on-going series from Rick Warren’s teaching at our Worship Influencers’ Retreat. (See Rick Warren on Worship Leading for more details and explanation.) Rick Warren on the context of worship: Why are we here? Why did he put us here? Life is preparation for eternity. This is pre-school before college in the next life. Four things we’ll do in heaven: 1. Worship. Learn to worship here so I’m not a dufas. “Expressing my love to God for who he is, what he’s done and going to do in...
read moreRick Warren on Personal Prayer Before a Worship Service
This is the third post in my series on Rick Warren’s teaching during our Worship Influencers’ Retreat at Saddleback’s Rancho Capistrano. (See Rick Warren on Worship Leading for more details and explanation.) ~Dwayne Rick Warren on Personal Preparations Before a Worship Service: While I’m in my car, I start smiling. It releases endorphines that really does make us feel better. sometimes I feel like Rocky’s trainer. We don’t do the holy huddle praying before the service. 1. should do praying before you get...
read moreRick Warren on Training Worship Leaders
Rick Warren and Dwayne Moore This is the second post in my series from Rick Warren’s teaching at Rancho Capistrano during our Worship Influencers’ Retreat. (See Rick Warren on Worship Leading for more details and explanation.) ~Dwayne Rick Warren on Training Worship Leaders: 1. Teach them to worship, not lead worship. Music is God’s gift for expressing emotion. Others will be attracted. You can’t fake humility in worship. In spirit and truth. 3 qualifications: 1. spirit 2. truth 3. orderly...
read moreCreative Order of Worship to Teach Personal Praise
This order is different than anything I’ve seen before. (In fact, in my 30+ years of planning and leading worship, I have never seen or heard of this approach.) But I can testify that this simple but deliberately planned time of spontenaity helped teach our people a valuable lesson about personal worship and praise. Our pastor, Randy Norris, and the worship planning team at our church were brain-storming about how to flow the service with his message theme about the importance of having a...
read moreDramatic Responsive Reading for 4th of July Service
Here is a powerful dramatic and responsive reading that works great for a Fourth of July Celebration Service. It is excerpted from the House of Representatives Resolution 397 (111TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION). It highlights in chronological order many evidences of how the United States of America was founded on God and why therefore it should continue to be a Christian nation. This Dramatic Reading needs 4 people and takes 9 minutes to read. We encourage you to play a building rendition of Battle Hymn of the Republic or a similar patriotic...
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