AGENDA

1. Review Large group:
    a. How did it go in general?
    b. Review set & plan
    c. Talk about what things they want to learn from it
           → lead into talk about things to do this year
           → expectations / growth goals?

2. Talk about the new member possibly joining the team
    a. Push time back to 3:40?  (Ben not out of class till 3:25 on Wed)
    b. I’m meeting with Ben tomorrow @ 3pm for coffee.  What do they want me to find out?
    c. How do we want to catch him up generally with some of the things we talked about last year?
    d. Other new people that they have met that they want me to contact?

3. Pick an object and describe an aspect of God's character using it.

**Yes, there is no musical practice planned into this meeting.  That's mainly because there's only two members of the worship team apart from myself and they play together a lot already so we don't need to spend much time in that area.  If they need to we could always make time but i'd rather they work on it in their own time.  As a general rule I expect people to practice on their own and not only pick up their instrument the day the team is together.  This may seem like a lofty expectation but in my mind it beats the alternative.  As a leader your expectations always communicate something to your team and I'd rather communicate a value for quality vs. irresponsibility.

LEADER'S COMMENTARY

 Honestly, I was a little nervous about this whole year what with the worship team dropping in number and with all the great discussion & things we did last year - I wasn't too sure where to go next.  At some point there is less and less you can openly "teach" or discuss about worship itself and more and more discipleship that needs to happen in order to grow as a worship leader and as an individual.   Just like art classes - eventually you can't tell people any more about shading, perspective etc...  they just have to figure out what their own style is.  That is partly why the "agenda" that I made for this meeting is a little vague. 

We started off by just catching up on how people's days were going and hanging out in general.  After about 5 min I gudied the conversation to talking about the last worship set they did together which Jessie (not his real name) had led.  From there the group naturally started talking about ways they thought that worship could be improved at SLU to better help students feel like they could engage with God (something I worked hard on last year to get the team talking about). 

Typically I don't try to abruptly change the subject but keep conversation flowing and guide it through the agenda I have on hand.  Sometimes though in the process of doing this I learn that the agenda I planned just isn't right for what the team needs.  As we were talking about the last worship set and improving it we somehow stumbled into a discussion about what music is worshipful and what isn't.  Jessie, for example, wants to define a worship song as a song that expresses the definition of worship; that expresses the "lowness" of the singer and the "highness" of God.  So in the original agenda below I scratched out #3 and instead asked them to bring some examples of what they would define as good worship songs, bad worship songs and songs that confuse them because sometimes they're great and other times they just seem dumb.

I changed the agenda because my overall goal is to help the members of the team to deepen  their understanding of worship and in their understanding of themselves as music ministers because ultimately it will make them better at what they do.   My new 'rough' plan is to have them eventually write a worship song together that they feel authentically engages them in a "worshipful" manner.   So first we'll spend some time figuring out not just what it means to worship but what it means to worship via song and not just by ourselves but as a community. 

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