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How to Plan Engaging Christmas Worship Services

Jason Hatley says great moments in worship don’t have to be accidental:

With the right spoken transition, the right lighting or the right stage change (just to name a few), your worship set can go from unremarkable to irresistible. Here’s how:

#1 – Be true to the feeling of the song. If you’re singing a rockin’ opening worship song, and you want your congregation to move, clap and sing, then you can’t stand onstage like a knot on a log. You have to move, clap and sing as well (only bigger). As live music producer Tom Jackson says, “Don’t sing rock songs if you aren’t going to rock.”

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Don Chapman

Don Chapman‘s passion is for the Church, music and technology, and he blends all three into resource websites devoted to contemporary worship: Hymncharts.com and Worshipflow.com. He’s the editor of the weekly Worshipideas.com newsletter that’s read by over 30,000 worship leaders across the world.

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