Week 4: Developing Your Game Plan

You can’t just magically start to be creative in worship. As I’m sure you’ve discovered, the game plan and process for making worship creative looks much different from what has been taught and done in years past.

Whether it is the planning timeline, the number of people involved in planning, the execution of the worship gathering or the time you take to evaluate things, creative worship takes a huge shift in mindset and culture to be pulled off effectively.

Today, we want to help you take the first step in developing your game plan and understand the need to shift your mindset and the mindset of your church so that creative worship can happen.

Let’s start by watching Scott Hodge talk his ideas of the pendulum of change:


Small changes in your process, planning or the like will not result in an effective and lasting shift to more creative worship.

Maybe you have a staff person who is not buying into the vision you are lifting up for being more creative in worship. The radical shift might be letting that person go.

Maybe you’re a pastor that has been planning worship alone for years and is hesitant to allow others to be involved in the process. The radical shift might mean making someone else the leader of the new planning team and only be at the meetings to share your vision for the message.

Maybe you are part of a church that has been worshipping the same way for 80 years and you have come to the realization that you are no longer reaching your community but comforting your membership. The radical shift might be closing your doors and relaunching with a new name, a different vision and a new set of leaders. (Check out how Scott Hodge got involved at Orchard Valley here.)

Brainstorm:
What are your greatest obstacles to being more creative in worship?
What major shifts might you need to make in order to overcome those obstacles?

I hope these first four weeks have helped you focus your “Why?” answers, solidify your vision for creative worship, understand the importance of team planning and realize that you might have to make some radical shifts in order to make creativity stick.

Next Week:
We are starting our section on teams and will be looking at the make-up (in terms of people and purpose) of the worship planning teams at Ginghamsburg, Summit and Jacob’s Well.

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