Worship Service Considerations

I am a pastor. Specifically, I am a pastor at The Journey, a Gospel-centered missional church in St. Louis. We are what many call an "emerging" church. More specifically, I am the pastor charged with upholding the worship value of our church. So this means that I guard and guide the look, sound, feel, taste and smell of our worship services.

God has blessed me ridiculously with this job. It is a dream job, with an unbelievable group of hard-working, God-fearing, family-loving guys. I also get to use a lot of my best gifts in this capacity, meaning I get to teach and shepherd and play music with some very gifted musicians.

I also get to think and write about a lot of things that both interest me and impact my ministry work. So I'm starting a series of posts that share some of my basic thoughts on how to think through the song selection process. More of this kind of stuff to come. Look forward to hearing from some of you.