Worship Ministry Bible Study Curriculum?

[pwright2]

So, our Worship Ministry is trying to step up into a new phase and wants a DVD based bible study keyed to worship, exciting, and not 'dated'. Something they would use on rehearsal nights, so I suspect it needs to be short. Combined worship teams have an age span from College/YA to early Senior. Any suggestions?

-----Paul-----

[jksbc]

That is a great idea but I don't know of a particular curriculum. We have a short devotion or time of sharing, then prayer requests. But, I find that more times than not when the band is having a little difficulty getting it together so to speak the devotion is the first thing that gets cut. One tool we've used that I think is very effective. It's sort of combining practice with the devotion. We obtain a live video of one of the Hillsong, Desperation Band, etc. songs that we have in the set for that week. We watch how those bands lead worship and discuss what the songs mean. I believe it enhances the worship leadership abilities of our own band. It encourages them to step it up. We also encourage all of our worship team members to participate in other small groups. Bands tend to lean towards forming cliques. We try to avoid that.

[[Admin] osborn4]

I wonder if one of Matt Redman's books might be a good for this?

[director.gtr]

I know it has been a while since this has been updated. But what we do is have about 15-25 min for prayer requests/praises and saying how our week has been. We then go strait into our practice and I would have to agree that if we have a big set to learn that night, the fellowship time is the first to be cut down. One of our church Elders came up with an idea to have a debriefing after practice to talk about how the team felt it went and what could we improve on. I like the idea but i'm afraid it will cause the music director to push the practice that much faster to get done so we have time to do that.