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I’m teaming up with Jason Hatley (Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey) this week to bring you 4 BIG worship planning principles from our new book, Engage: A Guide to Creating Life-Transforming Worship Services.  Let’s continue today by looking at how planning your worship services in advance actually helps you listen more closely to Holy Spirit’s direction.

Have you ever come across church leaders who confuse laziness with godliness? These are the people who argue that they don’t like to put too much planning into their services because they want to leave room for God’s Spirit to work.Such thinking is not an invitation for the Holy Spirit to work, but rather a simple excuse for laziness.

Any pastor can pick up his Bible on Saturday night, read through a few verses and then get up and talk for 30 minutes on Sunday. Contrary to their popular belief, pastors who operate this way are not being more spiritual; they are actually dishonoring God. Remember our call to excellence? It’s impossible to be excellent without prayerful preparation.

Pastors who choose to adopt this mindset have always reminded me of students who wait until the last minute to study for a test they’ve known was coming for weeks. They cram for a few minutes the night before the big day and then sit down in front of the test, pencil in hand, and say, “God, please help me,” before diving in. God is not going to give such ill-prepared students the answers.

But if they had taken time to prepare for the test – to live up to their responsibility as students – then God would certainly help them stay calm, synthesize all of the information and do their best.

The Holy Spirit is perfectly capable of giving you advance insight and direction into his plan for your upcoming worship services as you honor God through preparation. He can move and inspire you just as powerfully two Thursdays before your message as he can the night before or the morning of – and you’ll be in a better position to hear from him.

Planning prepares you for God to move, and paves the way for excellence.

Not to mention, planning is extremely biblical. Again, Proverbs 21:5 says, “Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.”

Proverbs 21:31 follows that up with, “The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.” Both of these verses make it clear that God intends for us to plan.

“Winging it” is not an option in kingdom work. Of course we acknowledge that the ultimate result of our efforts lies in his hands, but we are in no way to use that as an excuse to shirk our God-given responsibility.

There’s an old joke about a religious devotee who visited the same saint’s statue every day and prayed, “Dear Saint, please, please, please help me win the lottery.” One day, as the man was praying this prayer for the umpteenth time, the frustrated statue came to life and said, “My son, please, please, please, buy a ticket!” This tongue-in-cheek joke underscores a reality we all need to remember – no matter what we are expecting from God, he wants us to hold up our end of the bargain.

God doesn’t reward our laziness; he works through our preparation.

Nelson

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Only a few spots remain . . . Learn more and sign-up at: www.worshipleaderinsights.com/coaching.

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I’m teaming up with Jason Hatley (Pastor of Worship Arts at The Journey) this week to bring you 4 BIG worship planning principles from our new book, Engage: A Guide to Creating Life-Transforming Worship Services.  These principles can help you relieve the stress of weekly worship planning and maximize your worship services every Sunday.

This series of posts is for BOTH Pastors and Worship Pastors (after all . . . we’re in this together) so be sure to share this with your Pastor / Worship Pastor.  Let’s get started today with what we consider to be the #1 enemy to effective worship planning . . . The Sunday-to Sunday Mentality.

There’s a fine line between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. If you’ve been a teaching or worship pastor long, you know exactly what I mean. You spend all week planning, preparing and praying for your Sunday services and then, when they’re over, you barely have a minute to breathe before it’s time to start planning, preparing and praying for the next week’s services.

Sunday comes along with amazing regularity. Each time it gets here, you are expected to have biblical yet original material prepared for your attenders – something that will resonate with them and send them back into the world better than when they walked through your doors. You can’t preach the same message you preached the week before; you can’t sing the same worship songs. The people sitting in front of you will be hungry for something fresh and new.

With the tapestry of this pressure hanging over your shoulders, it’s easy to fall into the trap of a Sunday-to-Sunday mentality. That is, to feel like you are always just trying to get through the next Sunday, then the next Sunday after that, then the next Sunday after that… constantly behind the eight ball and making it up as you go every week. Can you relate?

Here’s some good news: You don’t have to live and die by the weekly grind.

You can break the week-to-week mentality that sabotages so many well-intentioned teaching and worship pastors. By putting a strong, biblically sound worship planning system in place, you will be able to maximize not only this Sunday, but every single “next Sunday” to come.

The key to getting out of the tailspin and cooperating with God to do church at a higher level can be summed up in one word: planning.

Over the course of the new few days, we’re going to talk a lot about worship planning. But unless you decide to break the Sunday-to-Sunday mentality, you will never be able to plan your worship services effectively in advance.  Sure you may get excited about some of the ideas, try them and even see some immediate success.  But without a change in mindset, new excitement soon returns to old habit.

So as we start this series of posts on worship planning, here’s what I want you to do.  Pray and ask God to give you His insight into planning.  Break the cycle of Sunday-to-Sunday thinking and start asking right now, “What can we do to communicate the timeless truths of God’s word to our church next Sunday?”

Nelson

PS – The best way to break the Sunday-to-Sunday mentality is to sign-up your Worship Leader for Jason’s new Worship Leader Tele-Coaching Network starting March 16.

In the tele-coaching network your worship leader will receive monthly hands-on coaching from Jason, including over four hours of training on how to establish the worship planning systems we talk about in Engage in your church.

Learn more and Apply Now at www.worshipleaderinsights.com/coaching.

Don’t avoid clichés. They are clichés because they work

George Lucas

God wants you to reach more people this Easter. Join me for this FREE Conference Call designed to give some practical steps that will allow you to experience record attendance on Easter Sunday.

I want to make this as easy as possible so I will be doing this call 6 times in the next two days:

CHOOSE ONE OF THESE CONVENIENT TIMES:

Thursday, Feb 23 at 9:30AM OR 12:30pm OR 3:30pm

Friday, Feb 24 at 9:30AM OR 12:30pm OR 3:30pm

This 75-minute, nuts-and-bolts call will be packed with next steps that you can implement to make this the biggest and most impactful Easter yet at your church.

Why settle for status quo this Easter… Double your attendance with this FREE conference call.

Don’t put off this important step, register now:

http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/index.php/free-stuff/easter-conference-call

PS – My new coaching network starts tomorrow! There are a few spots left but you need to apply right now or call my office immediately:

http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/index.php/coaching/senior-pastors

This is the week I’ve been eagerly anticipating for months!  My new Senior Pastor Tele-Coaching Network begins THIS THURSDAY and I’m excited about the quality of pastors who are signed up. This is a great group of Senior Pastors.

I just want to give you a heads-up though – I only have room for a few more Senior Pastors, and you must Apply Now for consideration.

One of the reasons I’m so passionate about the network and adamant about you prayerfully considering it is because I get to see and hear first-hand how God uses the network to grow churches, reach more people for Christ and re-energize pastors!

For example – here’s an update I received from Ed Trinkle (a Coaching Alum and Pastor of Life Church in Aston, Pennsylvania) about his experience and results in the network:

 The month we started our first coaching lesson we averaged for the month 280, this month we averaged 360, and that does not include Easter Sunday in which we had 480.   I have been to great meetings where I was motivated to come home and grow our people and our church,.  This network, for me feels like I am learning how to be a quarterback on a Super Bowl team, not from a loud emotional, motivated coach, but from a successful NFL quarterback.

- Ed Trinkle, Life Church, Aston, PA

Thanks for sharing Ed – it’s great to see what God is doing at Life Church!

How about you?  Are you ready to grow personally and lead your church to grow?

Let me help you do everything you can to make the next year of ministry your BEST year of ministry?

My new Senior Pastor Tele-Coaching Network starts in just two days – THIS Thursday, February 23 – and there’s just a few more spaces available for pastors like you.

For more information and to Apply Now, visit:

www.ChurchLeaderInsights.com/telecoaching

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because

it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work

Thomas Edison

You asked for it and we responded! So many pastors wanted to listen again and share the “21 Ways to Double This Easter” that my team has made a “Replay” of the conference call available! Listen now to learn 21 practical techniques that you can apply to double your attendance this Easter!

I normally share these principles with just my tele-coaching participants but I decided to open it up to the Church Leader Insights Family and help as many churches as possible.

 This 75-minute, nuts-and-bolts replay call is packed with next steps that you can implement to make this the biggest and most impactful Easter yet at your church. Plus, this serves as an “inside look” into my upcoming Tele-Coaching Network for Senior Pastors.

Don’t just settle for status quo this Easter… Double your attendance with this FREE Replay of the conference call.

Easter is quickly approaching and you must take steps today to impact April 8th, Register now:

http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/index.php/free-stuff/easter-conference-call-replay

PS – My new coaching network starts next Thursday! There are a few spots left but you need to apply today:

http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/index.php/coaching/senior-pastors

Join me TODAY, Thursday, February 16 for this “first of its kind” conference call, where you’ll learn 21 practical techniques that you can apply to double your attendance this Easter!

I normally share these principles with just my tele-coaching participants but I decided to open it up to the Church Leader Insights Family and help as many churches as possible.

 This 75-minute, nuts-and-bolts call will be packed with next steps that you can implement to make this the biggest and most impactful Easter yet at your church. Plus, it will serve as an “inside look” into my upcoming Tele-Coaching Network for Senior Pastors.

Why settle for status quo this Easter… Double your attendance with this FREE conference call.

Don’t put off this important step, register now:

http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/index.php/free-stuff/easter-conference-call

PS – My new coaching network starts next Thursday! There are a few spots left but you need to apply today:

http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/index.php/coaching/senior-pastors

Steve Reynolds is the Senior Pastor of Capital Baptist Church in the Washington, D.C. Area, and I am very proud of him and all he has accomplished over the years.

Steve has become very well known for his Bod4God book, video resources and “Losing to Live” program, but I know Steve best as a member of my coaching networks.

I talk about developing healthy systems in your church while Steve took the idea of developing a “healthy church” in a bit of a different direction

As a two-time Tele-coaching Alumni who is now participating in my Advanced Coaching Network, Steve has not only undergone a radical transformation physically, but his church has been transformed as well.

By not just telling his people about a great idea, but rather living it out in front of them, Steve has been able to help thousands of people through Bod4God.

Take a look at this recent video that was featured on The Today Show:

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Don’t underestimate what God might want to do through you… I like to say, “Growing churches are led by growing leaders”… but not growing in the physical sense – especially if they’re living the Bod4God lifestyle!

Steve’s demonstration of not just talking about an idea (getting healthy and losing weight) but actually doing it himself first is how I handle my coaching network. I don’t simply tell you to go try something that should work in theory.

Instead, I have been working on the front lines in ministry for over 20 years – and have coached over 1,000 other Senior Pastors over the last six years.

Everything I’ll teach you in the network has been tested, tried and proven by a practitioner – a pastor who’s actually leading a growing church week in and week out.

Just like Steve has helped the people of his church (and lots of other churches) get healthy, I would like to help you get your church systems healthy.

If you haven’t yet applied for my new Senior Pastor Tele-Coaching Network that begins on Thursday, February 23, I still have a few spots open (but they’re filling up fast!).

Learn more and Apply Online today:
http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/index.php/coaching/senior-pastors