NCLI - Day 4

Yesterday was about par for the course for this event. We had a church come and visit us and share a worship experience. It was a praise and worship experience front heavy with music followed by 35 minutes of preaching. There were several decent elements with the service, but there were some flow issues (or at least they would be in our future context).

After the worship experience, there was some discussion about application preaching (which of course would drive some of my preaching professors nuts). One of presenters said that heavy borrowing from other preachers, cooked in your own sauce, was perfectly acceptable. This of course cuts across the grain of a purist.

Later in the afternoon, we had another conference leader from yet another state share with us about worship. We discussed hiring a worship leader and forming the worship team. Finally we discussed some forms and types of worship music.

This was one of the days I was looking forward to most, but must say that my expectations weren't met.

In defense, over the more than 10 years of my ministry experience, I have worked with 3 consultants, 1 coach, started 2 different ministries, worked in the TX Annual Conference transformation process for churches, etc. With this as the backdrop, there is much information that has been repeated during this past week.

Today is the final day (Friday, May 8) and we are having a presentation by Midnight Oil, so I will post about it later this evening.

Blessings,
Russell