Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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IV. To Be an Effective Worship Leader One Must Comprehend Specifically and Biblically the Power and Significance of Music .

A. The power of music

1. As a spiritual force

2. As a cultural phenomenon

3. As an emotional response

4. As a form of communication

5. As an artistic expression

B. Love music as an expression of your heart to the Lord: Ps. 150 (worship is to be unbroken, undiluted, high-energy, wholehearted, and uncompromising)

C. Learning to be a member of a band: the power of contribution

1. Band vs. individual

2. Contribution’s elements

a. Developing an ear for “our sound”: playing a role on a team

b. Dashes and Pinches: the “Lazy Susan” approach to contribution

c. Learning to downshift: providing sound only when it contributes

d. Your goal: “I intend to play on my instrument all that and no more which each song requires to give the overall sense and impression that we together intend to make”

D. Master and employ to the full the Basic Building Blocks of music

1. Rhythm – Beat

2. Tempo

3. Melody