11 Ways to Lead a God-Glorifying Weekly Worship Gathering

Mark Clifton, Mark Hallock, and Dan Hurst discuss some ways to help inject new life into the weekly worship gathering. Some Highlights:
  1. Make sure the gathering is truly God-centered, not man-centered.
  2. Help people feel the weight and joy of worshiping God, not shallow and joyless.
  3. Let theological conviction shape every component, not pragmatism.
  4. Preach the Word with precision, passion, and application, not sloppy, dull, and impractical.
  5. Celebrate the Lord’s Supper consistently with intentionality, not as an afterthought.
  6. Do what you can with excellence, not what you can’t and not half-way.
  7. Keep it simple, not unnecessarily complex.
  8. Choose songs that are singable and sound in doctrine, not simply what is popular.
  9. Encourage congregational singing, not disengaged observing.
  10. Make sacrificial giving a worship opportunity, not something to be avoided.
  11. Regularly cast vision for how our worship of God must fuel the mission of God to make disciples, never assuming people drift toward the mission.
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