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Serving Your Congregation With Diverse Song Choices

Russ Hutto discusses selecting music and crafting worship set lists that are on mission:

Finding songs that allow us to express our love to God is fairly easy. With modern worship writers churning out hundreds if not thousands of songs per year to choose from, we’re in a wonderful era of access. You can find a song that supports any and every theological theme you need to reinforce from Sunday to Sunday. You can find a song that conveys the specific attribute of God’s character that you want to focus on.

That being said, finding songs that serve the congregation well is more about learning the heartbeat of your people. Do your people like wordy, traditional hymns? Do your people like simple, repetitive choruses? Does your faith family like high-energy, expressive praise? Does your congregation like orchestrated arrangements?

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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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