What I'm Reading

"God's Singers" by Dave Williamson.

I'm thrilled to be reading Dave Williamson's book "God's Singers" as we are launching a worship choir here at Reynolda Church.  Williamson does a great job of encouraging worship leaders and worship pastors to explore the use of a worship choir in the context of modern worship.  He states that the choir "is" the worship leader.  Not a group of singers that slogs through most of the service and then comes alive when they sing the anthem that they have been working on for the last few weeks.  A worship leading choir engages the congregation in worship.  It acts as a mirror image to the worshiping congregation.  Worship leaders have a blessed view of the congregation during worship.  We get to see the Holy Spirit work His way through the congregation person by person.  When we have a large group of worshipers leading, the congregation gets to see the Holy Spirit working through worshipers in all different sorts of ways.  

At Reynolda we will be utilizing our worship choir once a month and during special services throughout the year.  I'm excited to lead along side a choir that is fully engaged in the celebration of resurrection.  

 

My prayer is that the new Reynolda Worship Choir will be a huge blessing to the worshiping congregation of Reynolda Church.  

Here is a video of Dave Williamson discussing "God's Singers."