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Pastor First, Worship Second
As a Worship Pastors—or Kids Pastors, Small Groups Pastors, or Lead Pastors—the most important part of our title is the word 'pastor.' In this video, Worship Pastor Chris Kuti walks us through some things we can do to 'pastor' attenders through music and even beyond the music....
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Creating a Worship Set That's More Than Just Songs
When you're creating a worship set, or any part of the experience, think about your main goal for the service. If it's to connect people to the heart of God, create a set tells God how great He is. If you have a mission to encourage your attenders during a certain week, choose songs that are upbeat...
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Worship Recording Tips: Building the Plane in the Air
For our first live-recording project, we had to learn a few things as we went. One was that live recordings aren't as easily controlled as studio recordings, so we had to go back and do a little post-production polishing. We learned a lot from other ministries like Elevation Church that have gone b...
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Original Worship Songs: Writing the Lyrics
When writing a song—or creating anything for your ministry—stay true to the culture and purpose of your church. For us, that means writing songs that incorporate key phrases and principles that are already familiar to our attenders. That familiarity helps them move past the "newness" of the song st...
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Fully Devoted: Recording Live or in the Studio
What's the purpose of your project? It's a simple question, but it will help guide the creation of any new asset you're creating for your ministry. When it came to recording "Fully Devoted" to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of Life.Church, we knew that the purpose could be better served by recor...
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Hillsong Training: Musicianship Matters
Join Autumn Hardman, leader of Creative Oversight for Hillsong Australia, on this Online Open Week webinar as she and their worship team discuss the importance of approaching your worship music with a spirit of excellence and desire for constant improvement....
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Hillsong Training: Hillsong Worship Leaders
Join Jad Gillies and Matt Crocker, worship leaders from Hillsong United, on this ‘Online Open Week’ webinar as they discuss the practise and preparation it takes to lead worship week in and week out....
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Writing, Producing, and Singing: "Breaking the Silence"
Join Life.Church worship leaders for a conversation about creating the new album Breaking the Silence —and the planning, the production, and the purpose of writing new worship songs. As the newest release from Life.Church Worship , "Breaking the Silence" is an electric set of original worship s...
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Three Questions for Worship Pastors
At first glance, it seems like a Worship Pastor's main priority is to sing. While singing is the medium, pastoring is the goal. Worship Pastors are responsible for one of the most real, vulnerable, spiritual parts of a church experience—when we tell God how wonderful He is and let him minister to...
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Creating Axioms for Worship Leaders
At Life.Church, we love principles to live by. We call them core values or axioms, and we have a set of ten for our church as an organization. A lot of our teams, too, have created unique sets of principles specific to their ministries. Here, we'll talk with a few of our Worship Pastors about the...
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