Singing worship songs on a Sunday is synonymous with the Christian experience.
Key points:
- WORTH theology and worship seminar will feature Matt Redman, Darlene Zschech, Ben Fielding, City Alight and Dr. Mike Bird, guiding worship leaders and musicians in biblical, relevant and poetic worship.
- “It’s a sacred responsibility,” Matt Redman said of worship leading.
- Matt’s hope is that WORTH feeds a desire to be more intentional and thorough in how we approach writing and leading.
- Listen to this episode of UNDISTRACTED in the player above.
Renowned songwriter Matt Redman is banding together with other worship leaders to ensure those writing songs for the church understand the intention, and responsibility, of the role.
At the one-day WORTH theology and worship seminar Matt Redman, along with Darlene Zschech, Ben Fielding, City Alight and theologian Dr. Mike Bird will guide worship leaders and musicians in how to fight for biblical, relevant and poetic worship.
“It’s a sacred responsibility,” Matt told Hope 103.2.
WORTH theology and worship seminar will guide worship leaders and musicians in biblical, relevant and poetic worship.
“If you’re writing songs, you’re choosing songs, you’re getting up the front and telling people ‘this is what God looks like’, you better make sure it’s accurate.
“And, you always want to make sure you plumb the depths of who He is, which is what these [WORTH days] are all about.”
Having penned songs like Blessed Be Your Name, Heart of Worship and Let My Words Be Few, Matt Redman has released 16 albums over his career so far, carrying a continued passion to reveal God to people through song.
“When it comes to using music to worship God there’s this amazing dynamic,” Matt said.
“I like to call it the ‘people of God in the presence of God pouring out the praises of God’.
“I love getting in the congregation [and] the thing I love most is trying to write songs for that [experience].”
One of the questions Matt gets asked most about worship is to define what it is, which he says is a combination of revelation and response: we learn something about God, and have a reaction to it.
Whether reading scripture, looking at a night sky or being with people we love “all of those things awaken you to something”.
“It’s a sacred responsibility,” Matt Redman said of worship leading.
“They awaken you to who He is, and that’s like the ‘breathing in’,” Matt said.
“The second part is, what am I going to do about that?
“Is it going to affect my lifestyle, my life choices? The way I speak?”
While a single day isn’t enough to train someone for worship ministry, Matt’s hope is that WORTH feeds a desire to be more intentional and thorough in how we approach writing and leading. For those not in worship ministry, he hopes it offers an experience of the power of truth in song.
Matt’s hope is that WORTH feeds a desire to be more intentional and thorough in how we approach writing and leading.
“[Worshipers] need to celebrate our distinctives,” Matt said.
“And one of our distinctives is to sing truth.
“If you can sing some powerful truth about God and put it in a song, [you’ve] got a chance of really reaching someone’s heart and soul in a beautiful way.”
WORTH will be in Sydney on Saturday May 10th.
Tickets and details are available via the WORTH website.
Listen to this episode of UNDISTRACTED in the player above.
All images supplied by Matt Redman and used with permission.
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