obedient with their own prayer life. I feel like we’ re all a part of this experience where we’ re all discovering and exploring. We all see in part, and we’ re all discovering different facets about the nature of God. We get to write ourselves into the story, and we get to turn the pages for one another and invite the next person to write the next page. It opens up new frontiers set to language.
[ WM ] One of the reasons we were so excited about Moments: Mighty Sound is the‘ big reveal’ it provides in terms of how you open up arrangements for songs like“ Spirit Move,
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“ Reckless Love, and“ Pieces”. While we love resources like Multitracks. com, the sonic benefits sometimes obscure the fact that some teams rely upon them as their‘ roadmap for worship’. In our experience, many senior pastors want their worship team to be able to open things up a bit, whether it is behind announcements, prayer, and free / spontaneous worship. This release is a great reminder that worship leaders can do more than just sing set arrangements from top to bottom. What are your thoughts about all of that?
[ Steffany ] I think the language is changing.
Worship leaders, as we’ ve known them in the past, have been more like song leaders for the church. We sing the songs, but is that actually worship leading? You’ ll hear Jenn say something like,“ Let’ s sing off the page,” because that’ s exactly what it is. Bethel Music is moving back to that, and I think people are hungry for more than a song that someone else wrote for them to sing. I think that they are longing to engage and to actually be led in worship. We’ re all just finding it together. This is the core of who we are. We started out being all about spontaneous moments, and then it swung to the other side a bit. Coming back again and remembering what our DNA is, this is actually what God entrusted us with, and what the Lord trusts most about us – that we would wait and not be afraid to be still and quiet. We don’ t have to fill everything with words. We can go a little bit deeper, and take the risk to see if there’ s anything else there, and to see if He wants to do something else. If He does, then we stay and we wait. If He doesn’ t, then we pull back or we move to another song.
[ Amanda ] The whole act of recording something is to capture something that feels true and authentic in its essence. I love all of the other stuff that we get to do, and there’ s a part of me that really loves the studio and being in a creative mode where you’ re tinkering and focusing in on details and ironing things
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