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Now entering a new exciting chapter starting off with this amazing chapter about our Guiding Principles. What I believe is the most important part of this chapter even though they are all important are the three basic principles. The three principles are Do what God clearly commands, Don’t do what God clearly forbids, and Use scriptural wisdom for everything else. We have to learn how to incorporate these three principles into our lives and we will eventually branch out and continue to learn more as we get more familiar to these three principles. Next in the chapter it talks about how we can learn from others and this stems from other people agreeing on the same BASIC PRINCIPLES and how they can bring different ideas but they all come from the same beginning. Finally the chapter talks about healthy tension where our goal is to evaluate everything and see where we can do some-thing better. In the next couple chapters we will be addressing the concept of healthy tensions and go more into...

This chapter was quite interesting and opened a new door into Christianity for me. This blog is split into multiple sections that talk about what worshiping will make us. I'm going to be talking about the first three sections, which are worshiping God should make us humble, secure and grateful. First is that worshiping God should make us humble. We have to understand that we are worshipers of God because Jesus died and rose to make us one, not because we earned the right to be one. Next is that worshiping God should make us secure. Our security ultimately rests in the unchanging love of God, most gloriously displayed at Calvary. Finally, worshiping God must make us grateful. The truth is, we’re all doing much better than we deserve. Because of our sin, we all deserve hell. We need to understand that we should be grateful to even be given an opportunity to worship him. I really need to follow these guidelines and worship God and feel all these things. I need to continue to shape ...

This chapter was really interesting and touched me very personally. At the beginning of the chapter he talks about how we can truly enjoy God's presence and in the end will inevitably end up enjoying, anticipating, and pursuing God's presence. First, we need to enjoy his presence and in order to do that we need to understand that God wants to be in the presence of his people and we are the link between him and the people with the music and the talents he has given us. Next is that we need to pursue God and in order to pursue God properly we need others to help us and we need to help others as well. Finally we need to anticipate where God is going to be and we know that God will be in heaven waiting for us and knowing this gives us the comfort to support him the best way that we can here on earth. This chapter really touched me because I needed to find and cherish God when I was younger but because I didn't I ended up drifting further away from him and I feel like we all n...

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.