Posts under ‘Worship Leading’

This week, my blog has three posts about worship myths.
The Myth of A Painless Offering of Worship.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Check them out and join in on the conversation!

Is worship as important in a dying church as in a thriving church? Should the focus of the church that is in its last days be worship, or finding a way to survive? Perhaps they go hand in hand. I am a part of a church that has been limping along for the past 5 […]

Growing up in the church I had great opportunity to glean and learn how to identify the giftings God had given me and begin the journey of shaping and growing them for His pleasure. My journey took shape through music and it became clear very quickly that the music that brought me joy was that […]

Early in ministry I often wondered, being solely an instrumentalist and an instrumental music director in our church, how I was a worship leader. What role did I play in leading worship? How good of a spiritual leader was I? I felt woefully un-gifted in some of these areas, yet highly gifted in others that […]

Many, I know, would scoff at the idea of the sound guy as being a worship leader. Several worship leaders I have known simply cannot envision this concept. They view the role of the sound mixer as being a servant to the band, a minister with the gift of helps - and geeky knowledge of […]

Gary Durbin is a worship leader I met at a conference earlier this year. Over at his blog he shares the following:
Most worship leaders are not in huge churches. Most worship leaders do not have big budgets, paid sound team members, paid musicians, and some are not even paid themselves. So, I have to […]

On my blog RKWL (Rich Kirkpatrick’s Weblog) I have a series for the past year where the myths we have with our weekend worship expressions are discusses. Sometimes controversial, this dialog needs to be had. Join the conversation!