LOOP COMMUNITY
DISCIPLING KIDS IN WORSHIP W / YANCY | Matt McCoy
If you ’ re a parent or involved in children / youth ministry , discipling kids and exposing them to worship music can have a big impact . Artist Yancy joins Matt McCoy from Loop Community to talk about her new book “
Sweet Sound : The Power of Discipling Kids in Worship ”. Yancy is a popular artist , author and mother who focuses on providing worship music and resources for children and families .
THE POWER OF MUSIC
[ Matt ] If you try to remember a sermon you heard three weeks ago , it may be hard to remember exact quotes from it . But if you think back to a song you sang three weeks ago , it might be a lot easier to remember the words . The same works for kids and how they learn !
[ Yancy ] “ I believe that there is power in music and there is a stickiness to the context of a song , the lyrics and the melody together . I remember songs from my childhood and the cassettes my mom played in our minivan driving around running errands . To this day I can be sitting in a church service or a programming meeting and someone says something or reads a scripture that one of those songs are about and in my mind instantly that song starts playing . Even though I haven ’ t heard that song in 30 years . That ’ s what I love . Whether you ’ re a parent or a church leader , what you do isn ’ t about Sunday . It ’ s about their future . Planting stuff inside of them that they may not need until later in their life .”
BEING INTENTIONAL
[ Matt ] Children pick up on the things they hear and what they ’ re exposed to . Being intentional to what music we expose them to can have a big impact on their lives .
[ Yancy ] “ Being intentional about what you push play on is so important . Every car ride , those are minutes that you have to actually disciple your kids . I was in the car with my boys and we were listening to the new Brandon Lake album and my younger son said “ I don ’ t understand what the devil meant for bad , God meant for good .” And he keeps circling back to it trying to understand . He ’ s hearing things and picks up on it and asks questions about it . It creates opportunities for us to talk about it and for me to disciple him . I hear from parents that at bedtime , conversations they have with their children , they ’ ll question something they heard in one of my songs and they ’ ll have a conversation about it opening their mind up to spiritual ideas and scripture .”