Zach Neese serves as a pastor at the north Fort
Worth campus of Gateway Church.
His best-selling book, How to Worship A King,
has recently been released as a marvelous
video teaching series that we recommend to
all worship teams, and it’s been released by
Gateway Publishing. He shares here with some
of the rationale behind the series, and the true
reasons for why we should worship, and lead
in worship.
[WM] I really appreciate this time with you
today, Zach. You have blossomed in your
worship and faith expressions over the years.
Initially leading worship and writing songs,
you’ve now authored a best-selling book on
worship, you lecture and teach, and have just
released a most-helpful video series examining
the role of a worship leader. I love the fact
that you are a contemporary talking to other
worship leaders. Tell us about your 8-part video
series, How to Worship a King. We’ll address
specifically, a few of the episodes later on in this
interview.
[Zach Neese] How to Worship a King is
the video series title and the idea behind it is
to massage the concept, the heart, and the
theology of Biblical worship into leadership
so that worship leaders can massage those
things into their congregations. Ultimately
my hope would be that pastors and worship
pastors would get a hold of this, because
change is always concentric, it starts in the
center with strong leadership and it moves
toward the edges where the congregation is.
So, a pastor who understands worship can
Faithful God
lead his congregation in worship, not just to
deliver service, but actually to be the chief
literalist of his congregation and to lead them
into the presence of God. A worship pastor
who understands that can begin to teach his
worship team, and a worship team that comes
together in unity can lead a congregation, and
once the congregation begins to understand
their part in worship it really comes together. You
remember in the Grinch Who Stole Christmas,
when the Grinch put his little dog Max in front
of that sleigh and tries to get him to pull all of
the presents up the mountain? Sometimes
being a worship leader feels like that. But when
the congregation understands worship, you’re
not pulling them up mountains anymore. They
begin to lead you. My joy is to step out onto
a platform as a leader and to see worship
already bubbling up in the congregation, to see
people leading worship where they’re standing
or where they’re sitting, or, depending on your
tradition, where they’re laying or kneeling,
so that the congregation becomes a people
August 2020
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