I
LOVE the changes in worship!
I
don’t like the changes in worship!
I
like some of the changes, but don’t care for …(fill in the blank)
Keep
going! We want more
Stop!
We don’t like this
I’ve
been away for a few weeks. What’s going on?
Do you recognize any of those
statements? I have been hearing them
throughout the month of July with regards to our worship services. That’s why I
wanted to follow-up on last month’s article on worship.
There have been some significant
differences in worship the last few weeks. Most people assume that since Nick Rossi came on as our Interim Director of
Worship & Music about the same time, that he must be the one responsible (aka, ‘the
One to Blame’). Actually, many of the
changes in July were in the works before Nick arrived. They came in response to
some questions about worship that I wanted to address over the summer. In order to understand the answers Nick
helped us come up with, it might be good to understand the questions that
inspired them. Here are a few: