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Getting Kicked in the Teeth?

A month or two ago, I wrote a piece here at WorshipMinistry.com called How to Dump Your Worship Pastor. It was my (therapeutic) response to another Dear Jon email I had just received from a team member (a drummer, no less--it always hurts more when it's a drummer. Amen?). Apparently, you've had thos Read More...

Whining, Dreaming & Just Dealing With It

[Jon's latest article at WorshipMinistry.com] Last week we talked about getting real with our current reality. Jim Collins in his business book, Good to Great illustrates this idea with Admiral Jim Stockdale's story. Stockdale was the highest ranking US military officer in the "Hanoi Hilton," a POW Read More...

Is Your Left Door Locked?

I grew up attending in a typical Mid-west, small-town, L-shaped C&MA church. At least I think it was typical of those kinds of churches in those days. Mostly hymns. A few "Alliance-approved" praise choruses worthy enough to sing in "real church"--you know, like Majesty and most anything from the Read More...

RadioShack Sound Systems & Faith-Infused Realism

Most leaders (volunteer or paid) find it easy to think about what they want to do and have and be after their ministry or organization grows. A preferred future is fun to think about. The current reality, especially for those in small churches, well, not so much. Here was reality at my first church: Read More...

Forget Excellence...

...think "remarkable" instead.Excellence is subjective and overwhelming.Remarkable is doable: a small tweak and improvement to the "normal" that surprises people.The pursuit of excellence feels like a never-ending journey.     How do we know we've arrived?The pursuit of remarkabl Read More...

Fire Your Worship Committee

Like, now.If there's no one that can, or really wants to take leadership in the area of worship, we appoint a committee.If there is someone in charge, but we don't quite trust him or her to lead, we assist them by appointing a committee.We might call it an "advisory panel" or a "planning team", but Read More...

Taco Bell vs. Chipotle

A burrito as big as your head for $6 or a three pound box of fast-mex food for $5? The cheapskate in me usually hits Taco Bell. Couple items off the value menu and a water, and I'm full for $2.50. And I do enjoy Taco Bell - probably a little too much. But Chipotle...mmm...it's like Christmas morning Read More...

Small Churches are Small Because They’re Doing Something Wrong

That’s what a college classmate of mine heard when he did a ministry internship in a very large church. No, he didn’t just hear the sentiment. He heard the actual words: “Small churches are small because they’re doing something wrong.”In some cases, this is absolutely true. But does that Read More...

Small Church/Big Worship - 2 or 3 More Numbers That Matter...

In the last SC/BW post, we talked about numbers. Numbers matter. We can't scale NorthWillowBackHillPoint down to 100 people. These large churches have more people on staff than most churches have, well, people.But there are a few numbers that are common denominators, and no size church gets to claim Read More...

Small Church/Big Worship - Numbers Matter...

No one walks into a church of 100 and expects Hillsong United. But there is a slight disappointment when “Mighty to Save” isn’t that, well, mighty.Numbers matter. I know I’m not supposed to say that. But when it comes to corporate worship, they do. The number of singers. The number of instr Read More...

Small Church/Big Worship - 10 Ways The Senior Pastor Can Make This Sunday Remarkable

I believe the senior pastor of any church is the CLW: Chief Lead Worshiper. He sets the tone for corporate worship. For the solo pastor of a smaller church, he may be actually leading the worship, or at least doing most of the behind-the-scenes work for Sunday.Here are ten ideas to reshape your wors Read More...

Small Church/Big Worship, an Introduction

Small churches. They're everywhere. Check out this excerpt from a great post I just read:Imagine you are looking down a very, very long street, and all the churches of U.S. are lined up along the left side of the street from smallest to largest. In behind each church are all their Sunday morning Read More...

The Good (and Bad) News About Small Church Worship Ministry

Recently, Musicademy, a worship/music resource site based out of the UK, released their top 100 articles of 2012. I've guest posted there occasionally, so I was pretty happy to see that seven of my articles made it on that list.This week, I'll be working on a couple projects that I'd like to finis Read More...

SC|BW Coaching Group Registration

Thanks for joining us in the Small Church|Big Worship Coaching Group. Your application has been accepted and you've got two more steps to take - profile questionnaire and registration. Profile QuestionnaireThe profile questionnaire will be sent as soon as you register. This will n Read More...

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