This last year I've challenged my team to "Raise the Bar" of worship arts excellence here and we've made some inroads. I'm sure we are all working towards excellence, that's a given. The mindset is easy, but the implementation can be tricky.
The term "Raising the Bar" evokes a challenge for some and fear to others. If you are a Worship Leader (includes all involved in a worship service), "Raising the Bar" may make you question your own abilities. "What does this "Raising the Bar" process mean to me?" And therein lies the problem. WHY do you want to "Raise the Bar?" Is it for God or self?
How do you implement excellence in worship for God's Sake alone? How do you work past all the emotions and strive to provide an acceptable and worthy sacrifice? What is acceptable to God? Why is creative church an oxymoron? How do you make the hard decisions of selecting the right leaders of worship and not "upset the apple cart." And how do you balance excellence with grace, ministry and heart? What one thing has made the biggest impact on improving your craft of worship?
These are not rhetorical questions - I would like to hear from you via post or email. Raising the Bar in the area of worship arts will be a series of posts and I need your input. Once collected, a collaboration of ideas can be posted and shared.
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. - Proverbs 27:7
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have
already mastered, you will never grow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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