"The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself; and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god." C. S. Lewis

• The Heart of Worship
• Before the Throne of God Above

"If the essence of...

So recently I started a new worship team in my youth group at my church and it's very small time currently. There's me, (vocal and ac. guitar), another vocalist, and a pianist (which is using an actual bar-style piano).
There is someone who is interested in learning an instrument to help us (and has a small amount of music theory and instrument experience but has never played a stringed instrument or a rhythm instrument)....

Hi everyone,

It's my first post on the forums and if I have added this in the incorrect sub-forum, please feel free to move it.

I am a 23 year old guy trying to modernise the way in which worship is done at a relatively small church (approx 200 people) to better utilise technology in our ministries. The church has quite a skewed demographic with the majority of members aged 40+ (a thing...

What is your church playing on Easter this year? I'd love to hear your Good Friday plans too, if you do a service for that.

We are introducing the song "Resurrecting" by Elevation Worship in the next few weeks in preparation for Easter, and we've also recently introduced "How Great is the Love" by Meredith Andrews....

Does your church have a process for looking at a song's theology, doctrine, perspective, worldview, etc. before you introduce it to your worship set? How have you handled it when a song in the rotation is brought up as having questionable content or lyrics for some reason? I am apparently more picky about this than some of the people on our worship team, but it was brought up recently and I am curious...

I would like to preface this post by saying that after talking to my current worship leader, I have made peace with this situation and have even come to agree with his point of view, but I would like to share a story and ask some questions to get a discussion of what I consider to be an important issue.

I have been a part of just about every aspect of music ministry (never...