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Worship Essentials: Growing a Healthy Worship Ministry Without Starting a War! Paperback – November 1, 2018
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Everybody talks about the worship, but nobody does anything about it. The well-known quote associated with Mark Twain actually goes like this—Everybody talks about the weather ... But changing it to "worship" seems appropriate. With Worship Essentials , Dove Award-winning worship leader Mike Harland helps leaders do something about it. Perhaps no subject about church generates more opinion and passion than worship. Walk with the typical church-going family on their way to the car after the service and just listen. Everybody really does talk about worship. Now, veteran worship leader and experienced ministry coach Mike Harland offers the tools worship leaders need to build biblically-faithful and effective worship ministries without bringing the disruption that often accompanies change. Psalm 67:5 reads, "Let the peoples praise you, God, let all the peoples praise you." Worship Essentials is here to help.
Mike Harland grew up in Mississippi, graduated from Delta State University, and has led churches in worship leadership roles most of his life. Since 2005, Mike has served as the Director of Worship for LifeWay Christian Resources. He is a published author, Dove Award-winning songwriter, and a worship leader who sings and speaks nationally and internationally. His blog and podcast, WorshipLife, are followed by pastors, worship leaders, and church musicians around the world. Mike and his wife Teresa serve in the discipleship and worship ministries of Brentwood Baptist Church and live in Franklin, Tennessee. They have three grown children—Lee, Elizabeth, and John.
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A must read for all worship leaders. While it does not plow a lot a new ground, it expertly synthesizes a lifetime of experience of the author. Highly recommended.
Experience based, focused on the right things. All ministry teams should study this together!
“Worship Essentials” by Mike Harland is a refreshing look at what makes worship, worship. So many churches and people in today’s society argue, fight, and war over the music portion of the church’s service. Those who aren’t fighting are agonizing over how to have the “right” kind of worship experience. This books puts all that to rest, but not in the way you would expect. Harland puts things in perspective. What does the Bible say worship is? How should we go about creating that kind of atmosphere? What is important? What should the focus be? What I find so refreshing is that he brings everything back to the basics. Applying the Bible and history to the world of worship music really shows what the focus needs to be. Worship needs to lead the person into the truth of God’s word. My favorite part was when he asked the reader to think of it like this: "If someone attended your church, but only came to the music portion of the corporate worship time and derived all of their belief system from the theological content of the songs, what would they believe? How much information about Jesus would they know? How about the Trinity? The doctrine of grace? What it means to trust in Christ or to walk in faith? Or would the music of your church only communicate to them what they should feel?" How true is that? Throughout this book, it becomes very apparent that all “parts” of the service need to be working in concert to bring the focus to Jesus. The book sets up values to be followed and down-to-earth things to consider. He even lays out dangers to look out for, things that often lead worship leaders down the wrong path. Leaders aren’t the only ones who will benefit from this book. I can think of quite a few people who aren’t worship leaders that need to read this book. There’s a message here for the laypeople as well. How many times do congregants make judgments about the worship based on how they feel? Or how many people are showing visible signs like raised hands or crying? Or what the style of the music is? Although not lecturing, it is very easy to see that a lot of the “problem” with worship is how we are viewing it. Again, where’s the focus? This book is very easy to read and is filled with valuable information that today’s churches need. I would recommend this book to leaders in the church as well as laypeople.
Harland, Mike. Worship Essentials: Growing a Healthy Worship Ministry Without Starting A War. Nashville: B&H Books, 2018. Worship Essentials by Mike Harland is a useful book for any church leader to consider. Worship is at the core of what Christians do together. Harland reminds his readers what a powerful component worship is in shaping both our theology and our faith community. Mike Harland is the Director of Worship for LifeWay Christian Resources. In the forward, Thom Rainer hails him as a go-to worship “guru” for the Southern Baptists. He is a Dove Award-Winning songwriter, and his blog and podcast WorshipLife are followed by worship leaders internationally. The book is arranged into four Values, spread across ten chapters. Value One: Tell the Story Value Two: Make True Disciples Value Three: Engage the Body Value Four: Aspire with Purpose The style of the book is conversational. Though it is clear Harland has done extensive reading and study in the area of worship, the book does not have an especially academic feel and is likely intended for more of a general audience. I applaud Harland for insisting that the main thing should be the main thing. Everything should begin with a deep appreciation and longing for Jesus Christ. The book contains many pithy expressions that demonstrate his “guru” qualities. For example, he reminds us that even though worship produces something visible, not everything visible is worship (10). “Authentic worship is observable in the life change of a heart consistently moving toward alignment with God’s purposes,” Harland explains (12). Likewise, he invites us to think more deeply about the words of the songs we sing. Knowing that the story of Jesus is what drives our story, how well do our songs actually teach the story of Jesus (48)? This is a great question! In this kind of thinking, Harland helps us rise above some of the squabbles that are typical of “worship wars” to reflect on the deeper power of how our songs shape our community. It is worth reflecting on our “Heart Songs” to see what they express (44). I loved his emphasis on the importance of the worship and preaching ministers being in solid alignment. His insistence on being worshippers of depth and intention is one of the great strengths of the book. As a member of the a cappella churches of Christ, it was interesting for me to read through Harland’s list of what he believes has become problematic in his contexts. In fact, they are an almost verbatim list of the kinds of cautions I would raise about my hesitance to add instruments, or extensive lighting and aesthetic effects. His metaphor for explaining the problem is a useful one: Is the church a filling station or an altar? At a filling station, a person goes to receive something (“It’s about you”), but at an altar, a person goes to give something (“It’s about the glory of God”)(92). Because of the elements of loud bands, visual enhancements, and high-dollar sound enforcements, Harland laments that in so many churches, the people have stopped singing almost entirely. As a way to greater congregational involvement, he proposes churches should turn down or cut back on the music, or even try some a cappella singing as a way to bolster Christians back into active participation (106). Overall, the content in the book is theologically healthy and rooted in deep personal experience. The main reason I was interested in the book was regarding the implementation side of how to help our worship be more in tune with its purposes, specifically with the involvement of key volunteers who help lead worship. The section that covers this is mostly contained within six pages, from 144-149. He expresses some good tips for how to work with worship teams, urging that well-coordinated groups who are focussed on drawing the church into meaningful worship serve as “The Enemies of Distraction.” While his tips here are on point, I was disappointed that the section on implementation did not receive anywhere near as much treatment as his sections on theology or on common problems, which are most of the book. There is lots of great material and quotes to help create a healthy theology of worship, rooted in many Scriptures I had not considered before–and will continue to ponder. But for the nuts and bolts of what solid implementation might look like, I feel that with all of Harland’s experience, he was capable of providing a lot more guidance, caveats, and best practices for what a well-functioning worship team would look like, and how teams successfully navigate problems. Undoubtedly he has myriads of stories of how this can be done well, or how it can be done poorly. I would have loved to read them. Though I thoroughly enjoyed the book, because I felt the book was more about theology than implementation, while its title hinted at the reverse, I would give it 4/5. Disclosure: I received this book free from B&H Publishing through the B&H/Lifeway Bloggers program. The opinions I have expressed are my own, and I was not required to write a positive review.
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An accessibly-written, healthy theology of worship, with some tips for local implementation
By Mark Adams on February 5, 2019
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Mike Harland grew up in Mississippi, graduated from Delta State University and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and has led churches in worship leadership roles for most of his life. Since 2005, Mike has served as the Director of Worship at LifeWay Christian Resources. He is a published author, Dove Award winning songwriter, and a worship leader who sings and speaks nationally and internationally. His blog and podcast, “WorshipLife” is followed by pastors, worship
leaders, and church musicians around the world.
Mike and his wife Teresa serve in the discipleship and worship ministries of Brentwood Baptist Church and live in Franklin, Tennessee. They have three grown children – Lee, Elizabeth, and John.
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