Breakout A – Immitation to Innovation – Matt Lundgren

4 things every worship leader has in common:

Need to be theologians – we need to know who we’re worshiping
1. met his wife and asked her, “who has the sexiest adam’s apple” it worked. they started dating.
2. point of story. He had no idea ahead of time of what he was going to say to her. We need to know what we are communicating
Need to be disciples
1. do you love the Lord passionately?
2. do you have a love for the word of God?
3. Do you exemplify the fruit of the Spirit in your life?
Need to be artists
1. We do ourselves an injustice by just learning the chords to the top 20 worship songs
2. God calls us to do more than just get by.
Need to be Leaders
1. It’s in our title, “worship leader”

God is not calling us to be the Chris Tomlin, God is calling us to be ourselves
Book from Parker Palmer quote about burnout that was way too long to type out. 🙂
“Is the life your living worth …” sheesh I keep dazing out. I’m tired.
Three questions asked
- Who am I?
- What about God am I most uniquely suited to reveal to others
- How is that meaning best lived out?
- Think about what is the world going to miss out on if you die today?

Man he’s going fast and there isn’t a handout. 🙁
3 things (don’t know what)
- knowledge
- talent – identify your unique talents and find other ways to make up for your lack of other talents
- ?
Hedgehog example from “From Good to Great”
3 circles – find something in all 3 circles where they overlap
- what are you deeply passionate about
- what can you be the best in the world at
- What is the church/people “hungry for”

Q&A

How do you create boundaries
What techniques do you use to prepare on sunday morning for worship? They sing a song backstage prior to service to worship together
How to be a worship pastor vs song leader? Be sensitive to the spirit of the room. Last night he felt like “Here I am to worship” was a great moment so instead of going straight into next song, he just acknowledged the moment
How do you feed your artistic talent? Stretch yourself musically. Try different styles
- They hope people leave saying three things
  - I connected with God
  - I laughed a little
  - I can’t believe they did that
    - creativity because our God is creative – not for creativity sake
How do you encourage participation from stage
- Pastor is encouraging the people – saying, “we are a singing congregation right?”
- Worship Leader is reminding them
How do you discover your style?
- Start watching people and ask yourself is there some things they are doing that you feel comfortable with. Also take note of things you don’t feel comfortable doing.

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