#297: Matt Redman on The Heart and Mind of Worship [Podcast]

Show Sponsor: Planning Center

So let’s talk about Planning Center. For those of you who are old enough, we often refer to worship leading eras as the pre-Planning Center days and the Planning Center days. It’s that game-changing and that important.

I talk about Planning Center pretty often on here, and if you’re a worship pastor, you might be wondering what more there is to Planning Center for you beyond worship planning and scheduling.

And there is.

Did you know that with a subscription to Planning Center Services you also have free access to another incredibly powerful product People?

With People, you can do things like create a volunteer pipeline to get new volunteers through their application process and then assigned to a team!

In People you can create an online form to get new volunteers, a workflow to help you walk them step-by-step through the training process, and then automatically add them to Services so you can get them scheduled!

And that’s just one way you use Planning Center People, so give it a try! Learn more at planningcenter.com/pipeline

And remember, if your church is looking for tools to help with things like giving, small group chat, event signups, live-streaming, and custom reporting, Planning Center has tools for that too, so let your church administrator know!

Topics Covered:

• How (and why we need to) expand our worship song topics
• Why theology is important for worship leaders
• How to reach for great theology and catchy melody
• A look at the Worth Conference in October 2023
• Guiding principles for building setlists
• The importance of a “key moment” in a setlist
• Incorporating liturgy and spontaneity

Resources Mentioned:

• Show Sponsor: Planning Center
• Worth Conference
• The Father’s Song by Matt Redman
• Facedown by Matt Redman
• Podcast: Matt Redman on Visionary Songwriting, Co-Writing, & His New Album
• Worship: The Missing Jewel of the Evangelical Church by AW Tozer
• The Knowledge of the Holy by AW Tozer
• Tozer on Worship & Entertainment compiled by James L Snyder
• Under The Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness by Eugene Peterson
• Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ by John Piper