Some more notes that I took at the Unleash Conference:
For this section, we'll cover the Service Planning seminar that I attended which was led by Shane Duffey, Creative Arts Pastor at New Spring Church. These notes are in no particular order.
- The key to planning any service is to listen to God and do what He's telling you to do. It's not about the process, it's about the person (Jesus).
- Make sure Jesus is seen clearly in your service. If you need to pull elements out of your service for people to see Jesus more clearly, then do it.
- There is nothing sacred about a worship service except for what God's Word says.
- Excellence is getting everything out of the way that obscures people's view of Jesus. It is NOT perfection.
- Talk & walk through every one of your transitions in a service.
- Employ the A.B.E. principle. (Always Be Evaluating)
- Teach your artists to honor God with their attitudes and if a piece gets cut that they worked on for 15 or even 50 hours, it is always for the good of the church and for the glory of God. You have to be able to remove your ego from the equation.
- If there is an idea that you do not like, you need to come prepared with alternatives to offer.
- Change things for a reason, and not just for the sake of change.
- Don't let your ministry get in the way of your personal time with God.
- Don't worry about late people. Put the Big Element in a service up front and if people miss out even one time, they'll start getting there earlier.
- Don't serve anything other than Jesus.
My pen was smoking during this session. It was almost too much to wrap my mind around, but it was great encouragement that we are doing a ton of things right at ACC. Now we just have to repair the things that we can and focus the service more on Jesus every week and not on what we want to do.
Remember, don't serve anything other than Jesus.
Tomorrow, I'll blog on the Worship Leader seminar with New Spring's worship leader, Lee McDerment.
1 comments:
Great stuff Brian. Thanks for sharing it.
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