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We attempt to worship God apart from the power of the Holy Spirit. We trust in our own wisdom, plans, creativity, and skill. We forget that worship of the triune God includes the Holy Spirit.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: We attempt to worship God
While it's simplistic to say that worship is love, it's a fact that what we love most will determine what we genuinely worship.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: While it's simplistic to say
Our great privilege as worship leaders is to help people see through the eyes of faith how great God has actually revealed himself to be. He doesn't change. We do.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: Our great privilege as worship
Skill Doesn't Make Worship More Acceptable before God While God values skill, he doesn't accept our worship on the basis of it. Even if I can play the most complex chord progressions, write better songs than Matt Redman, or play a song flawlessly, I still need the atoning work of the Savior to perfect my offering of worship (1 Peter 2:5).
Bob Kauflin Quotes: Skill Doesn't Make Worship More
raise the affections of my hearers as high as I possibly can, provided they are affected with nothing but truth, and with affections that are not disagreeable to the nature of what they are affected with."1
Bob Kauflin Quotes: raise the affections of my
Remember, God can use us, but he doesn't need us.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: Remember, God can use us,
While God can work through us in spite of our mistakes, incompetence, and lack of preparation, he commends skill and uses it for his glory.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: While God can work through
Your greatest challenge is what you yourself bring to the platform each and every Sunday.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: Your greatest challenge is what
Leading people to praise God involves energy, intentionality, and thoughtfulness.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: Leading people to praise God
How do I know what I love the most? By looking at my life outside of Sunday morning. What do I enjoy the most? What do I spend the most time doing? Where does my mind drift to when I don't have anything to do? What am I passionate about? What do I spend my money on? What makes me angry when I don't get it? What do I feel depressed without? What do I fear losing the most? Our answers to those questions will lead us straight to the God or gods we love and worship.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: How do I know what
In Music Through the Eyes of Faith, Harold Best defines excellence as "the process of becoming better than I once was.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: In Music Through the Eyes
God isn't looking for something brilliant; he's looking for something broken.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: God isn't looking for something
But if we could grasp God completely, he wouldn't be much of a god. We should anticipate that our minds will be stretched to their limits as we seek to take in God's revelation of himself and his universe.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: But if we could grasp
Trying to lead worship without electrical power can be a humbling experience. Trying to lead without spiritual power is far more serious. But normally not as obvious.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: Trying to lead worship without
None of us can claim credit for our abilities.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: None of us can claim
Worship matters. It matters to God because he is the one ultimately worthy of all worship. It matters to us because worshiping God is the reason for which we were created. And it matters to every worship leader, because we have no greater privilege than leading others to encounter the greatness of God. That's why it's so important to think carefully about what we do and why we do it.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: Worship matters. It matters to
I was striving to gain the approval of those whose approval was of no eternal significance. I'd failed to see that the only approval that matters--God's--is impossible to earn but is offered as a gift through the gospel.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: I was striving to gain
But we can't love anything in the right way unless we love God more.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: But we can't love anything
And when it becomes a matter of infinite importance to us, we're beginning to grasp the heart of leading worship.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: And when it becomes a
We're helping people connect with the purpose for which they were created--to glorify the living God we're pointing their hearts toward the Sovereign One who is greater than their trials and kinder than they could ever imagine. We get to display the matchless Savior who died in our place, conquering sin, death, and hell in the process.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: We're helping people connect with
Whatever standards others might use to judge our ministry, God is concerned that we be faithful.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: Whatever standards others might use
Good theology helps us keep music in its proper place. We learn that music isn't an end in itself but rather a means of expressing the worship already present in our hearts through the new life we've received in Jesus Christ.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: Good theology helps us keep
The better (i.e., the more accurately) we know God through his Word, the more genuine our worship will be. In fact, the moment we veer from what is true about God, we're engaging in idolatry. Regardless of what we think or feel, there is no authentic worship of God without a right knowledge of God.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: The better (i.e., the more
Faithful leadership doesn't always result in being commended, applauded, or appreciated.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: Faithful leadership doesn't always result
A faithful worship leader magnifies the greatness of God in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit by skillfully combining God's Word with music, thereby motivating the gathered church to proclaim the gospel, to cherish God's presence, and to live for God's glory.
Bob Kauflin Quotes: A faithful worship leader magnifies
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