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Last chapter was focused on how we as worship leaders can end up motivating the congregation while not seeming like we are trying to force our ideals on them. This chapter is continuing on that idea but focusing more on how to proclaim the gospel in different ways. First, we need to understand what exactly the word proclaim means. Luckily, it is defined in the first line and is said that proclamation means displaying the truth about God. We might wonder why we have to proclaim but it says that we were saved for that very reason. We want to proclaim to others the wonders of a God and have them saying that the gospel of Jesus Christ Matters. There is a huge section in the middle explaining how we can connect the Gospel of God with our life. However, I wish to focus on the part that talks about how we can proclaim the Gospel together and to yourself. As we help people understand the relationship between God’s love for us in Christ and our daily struggles and challenges, their love and app...

It has been a while since the last post but moving on to chapter 14 is much easier than I thought. As it is stated in the title you can clearly see this chapters focus is the motivation of the church's society. The chapter jumps into an example that many worship leaders can relate with and that is motivating the band to follow them. It immediately follows that example by telling us that there are many different ways that we can be incorrect in trying to motivate others. A few would be that we don't want to force everyone to worship God and try to motivate the people through manipulation. We have to understand that sometimes we will not be able to motivate the worshippers and that only God can illuminate a worshiper’s heart. But he often uses means to do that. And three important means are my example, my exhortations, and my encouragement. My example means that we need to check our facial expressions and other things while worshipping so we can set an example for the worshippers...

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...