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UNIQUE SEASON OF
What a unique season of ministry we are in.
So much has changed and shifted. For many
there has been new ground taken. How you do
church in recent weeks resembles nothing of
how it looked just a few months back at the
start of the year.
they watch. So how you
to change and shift. L
audience based on how
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I lead? How will you lea
me to ask these questio
Last week I was having a conversation with
Kidmin leaders about leading VBS worship
online and how to navigate that. Following
that conversation, I happened to watch an
Instagram live where the worship leader was
talking about how different it is to lead worship
when there’s not an audience you can see.
This got me thinking and feeling nostalgic. I’ll
never forget when I made the change to in-ear
monitors twenty years ago. (By the way I am a
total fan and hate a stage wedge with a passion.
It’s the difference of hearing like you think your
thoughts vs. trying to catch something that’s
disappearing in the air and can’t be caught.)
When I started using IEM is before there were
filters to allow for some room noise to be heard
and even before sound guys starting micing the
room and sending it to your in ears so you can
“hear” the crowd response. I used them once
and never went back to stage monitors but the
learning curve at the time for me was to start
reading faces instead of relying on the response
I could hear. I could no longer hear my audience
so I had to start reading body language and
facial expressions to help me navigate how to
engage my audience. Well, here we are twenty
years later and there’s something new to learn
again. Leading an audience you can’t see. In
most cases you’re even leading an audience
where you can’t see the social media hearts
and thumbs up icons that float up the screen as
1. ARE YOU RELYING ON GO
AS YOU PLAN?
As you choose your son
what is going to be tau
best choose songs tha
just filling in the slots on
are you starting with pra
help you navigate and c
wants you to lead?
2. WHAT ARE YOU INVITING
I’ve asked this questi
leading specific ages an
if what I’m doing with tho
I should be doing with th
to problem solve just by
the evidence. But, in this
question takes on som
would encourage you to
a strategy for where yo
you lead. Share this as
to get involved. Remind
is for. Encourage them
their couch and watch.
they can participate an
all encourage them to ta
God through your times
them to draw near to t
the songs. Don’t just tra
make the transition bec
involved.
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June 2020