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to those who have come to us with spiritual and practical questions and needs. We’ve then shared those questions with pastors, theologians, musicians, sung prayer writers, technology advisors who could mentor, direct, and assist you in your calling and your life. Whatever God and experience has shared with us, we have shared with you. Together, we’ve explored a theology of worship as sung prayer. It’s a humbling thing to be allowed access to a person or communities spiritual life and I am grateful for each one of you. I never really thought of it this way, but God’s call to start a record label, then a magazine, and associated song service to congregations, and finally a conference, was really a call to become a Spiritual Director. I’m still in process, but am eternally grateful for those who took the time and interest to listen to my questions. Those who directed and continue to direct me, whether personally or via the written page, have literally changed the course of my life.
orship is built on the chronicles of faith and prayer from the pages of Scripture and life from generation to generation. The words of worship are given meaning through embodied expression. In the echoing narrative of God, He is the initial sender, igniting worship in us as the receivers and we respond by sending spoken and sung-prayer back to Him. Songs of proclamation, supplication, inquiry, deliverance, communion, prophecy, each one a note in the grand narrative of relationship and communion between God and His Church. God Who sent, now receives, hears, and responds. He is the ultimate Spiritual Director. Worship at its heart is prayer. And prayer is sacred conversation. Spiritual direction is facilitating sacred conversation and personal growth as a follower of Christ, helping a person to encounter and engage with God and life at a deeper and continually expanding level, existing in the space occupied by both the mystical and the practical. That is in many ways the call of a worship leader. We at Worship Leader magazine have always aimed at following the Father’s Lead, Jesus example, and the Spirit’s Direction, and in turn sought to listen attentively
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