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I believe that the main point of the chapter is explicitly stated for us in the title of this chapter. We need to plan out our songs that will be used for worship when we plan on worshiping. The biggest problem when we try to select songs for upcoming worship is that we try to find the songs that will benefit or highlight us or the music and will excite the audience when we should be trying to find songs for a God. We can follow ten principles stated in the book to guide our judgement when choosing songs. First we need to plan selectively, we must categorize the song choices and choose from the songs that communicate the truth about God in a clear and compelling manner. Second, we need to plan peacefully. We shouldn't panic if we haven't heard of a new song and should trust in a God to help us choose the right songs even if they aren't the one we were thinking of. Third, we need to plan prayerfully. We need to understand that God is there to help us through our prayers just...

I focused on the aspect of how being emotionally affected by music and actually worshiping God aren’t the same thing, and no one should know this better than worship leaders. Music can move people to tears but we need to show that it is not only the music but the word of God and just that God has the power and music is just a tool to convey that to people who think differently. The chapter continues to go into more details about how music helps and how to choose and integrate the many different parts of music into a worship worthy song. I can apply this personally because I never really took into account the different aspects of the songs such as solos or the lyrics, but now I am intrigued and want to try to examine the music more closely and see what changes I can make to help the worship and see what changes may hurt the overall experience and try to avoid such thing since in the future.

This chapter seems to focus on how we can apply God's word not only in our worship but also through our daily lives. The book says that we can sing, read, show, and pray God's word. See may seem similar but they are quite different. Songs teach us who God is, what he’s like, and how to relate to him. Too often we can be tempted to choose songs because of the music rather than the theological content. We need to realize that when words are combined with music we can be deceived. Reading a Scripture passage can help people understand why we’re singing the next song. The same can be seen through showing and praying God's word. I can see this around me and in myself. I see myself forgetting sometimes that we have to integrate all parts of God including his word when I worship and in how I act. Seeing this chapter helped me change my view of how I worship again. Slowly throughout this book I have been learning more and more about the way to truly worship. I hope that I will be...

This chapter primarily focuses on how Worship has failed to magnify the greatness of God in Christ because we attempt to worship God apart from the Holy Spirit. We have to still understand that the Holy Spirit is part of the triune of God and key in worship. If we acknowledge our dependence on God’s Spirit and eagerly expect him to be working in power, then we should be humbly responsive to what he is doing. We need to shape our worship around the triune and hope that if Spirit is working through us as we convey the message to others that we will know when the Holy Spirit is no longer empowering us and change our approach towards worship to be more efficient. I can apply this to my life by changing my view on worship some more. I need to now add the Holy Spirit into my idea of what worship is and acknowledge that worship without the Spirit is powerless. I need to find a way to change my worshiping so that the spirit can work through my life and that others can see this happen.

There are several parts to this chapter the first being about Jesus now being our temple. It talks about how the Israelites used to worship and show their adoration towards God in the temple. It continues to talk about how Jesus said that they should destroy this temple and he will raise it up in three days. We have to acknowledge that Jesus was the "temple" that he was talking about and that our worship isn't not defined by the location but by our attitude. The next major part is knowing where Jesus takes place in our worship and he takes the role of the mediator between us and God. We can see Jesus acting as a mediator when he died for us on the cross in order to bring us closer to God. The last part that I would like to bring forward out of this chapter is at the end. How to glory in the cross of Christ. We first have to identify what exactly does the cross signify. The book states that the cross not only shows the magnitude of God's love for us but also the magnit...

The main focus of chapter eight would be the idea that we eventually, no matter how great your faith, will end up making God's greatness smaller than what it should be just because we end up being stressed with all the little things in our lives. Since we are human we often lose our perspectives on things very easily and this can inevitably lead to problems in our regular and spiritual lives. The author states that in order to truly appreciate God's greatness we have to be clear and specific. We need to remind everyone that joins us for worship of the greatness of God through our music. If our songs aren’t specific about God’s nature, character, and acts, we’ll tend to associate worship with a style of music, a heightened emotional state, a type of architecture, a day of the week, a meeting, a reverent mood, a time of singing, or a sound. We’ll think of all the things that accompany worship rather than the One we’re worshiping. Worse, we’ll create our own views of God, portrayi...

This chapter brought a really large point into my view of worship and how worship leaders should act. It talked about the potential temptations that come with worship and what it truly means to be a faithful leader. He first brings to mind the potential temptations that a worship leader faces such as fame or the effects. These things can be the most dangerous to worship leaders just because we slowly get into the concert mindset and focus on trying to overwhelm the people in the audience instead of just trying to prepare them. Finally it brings to us the definition of what I means to be faithful to God as worship leaders and what we should not focus on. The book warns us that we will inevitably be criticized on things that we do and that it is not a bad experience but will help us grow in our relationship with God. I can directly apply my life to this because I'm always in the concert mindset whenever we go up to play during chapels or at my church. I feel pressured to do my best...