Teaching Your People To Worship
By Stephen M. Newman - April 18, 2008
If you have been in the ministry for a while you know that the arts department has a tendency to draw people of all colors and expressions. We are a bit different as people who are for the most part on the creative side. We see things in a different light and approach things in different ways. Because we tend to draw in people who have creative backgrounds and talents in the arts, there is a strong tendency for us to want to use our gifts to help fulfill a need within us. We have all c...

In Search of the Spiritual
By Stephen M. Newman - April 03, 2008
Do you ever stop and ask yourself, "Why do people visit my church?" Do you ever ask yourself, "Why don't they come back?" Why is it that churches across the country see people coming in the front door only to have them exit the same door and never return? I know of churches that will draw a 1,000 visitors a year and yet average under a 1,000 in worship. What is behind this unfortunate phenomenon? There are many reasons why people do not return to our churches after visiting for the first ti...

Leading Worship With Recorded Music
By John A. White - Feb 28, 2008
If you lead a small group and don’t have a worship leader, this paper is for you. I intend to show you how to lead worship, in five easy steps. You might be saying, “that’s impossible” but it is not. Leading worship is a combination of both artistic talent and skills that can be learned. Before you say, “Hah! I’ve got you, John. You’ve never heard me sing and I can’t play an instrument so I can’t lead worship.” I intend to show you how you can lead worship successfully by complimenting your art...

Being a Worship Leader - 3
By John A. White - Feb 13, 2008
Introduction to Part 3 In the last sections, we discussed how leadership is confirmed and emerges in various character traits. We emphasized the giftedness of the leader will often reflect more than one gift which we called a gift cluster. And finally, we used an instrument designed to highlight those gifts we currently use (This was the Excel Gift Assessment Survey file). In this section, we will discuss the high personal, family and social expectations for leaders. But first let’s mak...

A Triad Chord
By John A. White - Dec 17, 2007
I recently attended a worship concert of a highly acclaimed artist. The concert started late in the evening and I had an early schedule the next day, so I ended up leaving after about 45 minutes. During the drive home, I wondered why I hadn’t been “captured” into worship while I was there. After all, here was an internationally recognized worship leader, who is also very skilled as a musician and vocalist. I went with the intent of worshiping my heart out, but left with much less than I had ex...

Congregational Participation
By Ron Man - Dec 04, 2007
In that now famous quote by Kierkegaard, he stresses that the members of the congregation are the "performers" with God as the "audience" (and not the congregation as the audience to performers on the platform). In other words, worship is something done by God's people not for God's people. Congregational participation in corporate worship is in fact a direct application of the biblical doctrine of (and the Reformation reemphasis on) the priesthood of all believers: unlike Israel, we have n...

10 Principles
By EXW Staff - Nov 05, 2007
1. Thou shalt not show up in dirty linen (unconfessed sin). Heb. 10:22 Let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Ps. 96:9 Worship the Lord in holy attire; tremble before Him, all the earth. II Pet. 3:14 Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless. 2. Thou shalt not giving to ot...

Worship for All God's People
By Ron Man - Oct 20, 2007
Music is a sublime creation of God which is especially suited as a vehicle for believers to express praise to their Creator. How it must then grieve Him (and delight the Enemy) when this special gift all too often becomes a force for division (if not strife) rather than unity in our churches. The Church of Jesus Christ is to be a place where barriers come down - barriers separating Jew and Gentile, man and woman, laborer and executive, young and old. Wh...

4 Major Steps
By EXW Staff - Oct 01, 2007
The inspiration for this article comes from an Old Testament story. In this story there is a special building project undertaken by Solomon. The four stages explained in this article are the exact same steps illustrated in this story. You will find that these four concepts will dramatically help you in your music ministry. You need to take this information and start creating an overwhelming positive worship experience in your church's worship service. This is where we begin - One...

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