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Planters   Worship Basics For Church Planters  Steve Nicholson
A conversation with Steve Nicholson  Cutting Edge: There are new
church planters who have never been on a worship team, never led
worship…and now they need to start thinking about it. Where
should they begin?  Steve Nicholson: Figure out your basic
worship philosophy: “What are we doing here, and who is it for?”
There are several aspects to that.  One goal we have for worship
at our church is that it is participatory. A big goal is to get
wide participation. We want everyone singing together as much as
possible. That turns into an immediate goal. It’s not so much
about the performance as it is oriented toward what gets a group
going. So the songs you choose must be singable by the average
person.  Another aspect of worship philosophy is, how are you
going to handle the people who have never been in church before
and then come through the door