{"id":393,"date":"2010-06-22T06:04:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2011-03-10T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T02:53:11","slug":"worship-seminar-with-tom-kraeuter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/worship-seminar-with-tom-kraeuter\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship Seminar with Tom Kraeuter &#8211; My Takeaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I was able to enjoy a day-long <a title=\"Training Resources | Worship Seminar\" href=\"http:\/\/training-resources.org\/worship_seminar.html\">worship seminar from Tom Kraeuter<\/a> hosted by <a title=\"Association Free Lutheran Theological Seminary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aflts.org\/\">the Association Free Lutheran Theological Seminary<\/a>. \u00a0It was highly beneficial for me (and hopefully many others there). \u00a0What was interesting was that I came expecting a workshop on practicals and mechanics of worship ministry (namely &#8211; musical training) but was instead taught skillfully from God&#8217;s word about what worship is, developing worshipers, how to worship God in the hard times and more.<\/p>\n<p>One thought that struck me deeply and has me thinking differently about a lot of things was this question that Tom asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are you more interested in leading worship or in developing worshipers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is so easy for us to get caught up in the &#8220;importance&#8221; of <em>leading worship<\/em> and try to force fruit out of our congregation all the while forgetting that we must look at the root of <em>where worship comes from<\/em>. \u00a0If our people don&#8217;t have a biblical understanding of worship in their hearts and minds (root), no evidence of worship (fruit; excitement, physical expressions, etc.) will even be possible.<\/p>\n<p>No amount of musical technique, words of exhortation, or any other way to urge people to worship will work if they don&#8217;t understand who it is their worshiping, why they&#8217;re doing it, and how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, help me be someone who is much more interested in developing worshipers than leading worship.<\/p>\n<p>What are some ways you&#8217;ve taught people how to become worshipers instead of just church-attenders and spectators?<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/worship-seminar-with-tom-kraeuter\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I was able to enjoy a day-long worship seminar from Tom Kraeuter hosted by the Association Free Lutheran Theological Seminary. \u00a0It was highly beneficial for me (and hopefully many others there). \u00a0What was interesting was that I came expecting a workshop on practicals and mechanics of worship ministry (namely &#8211; musical training) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-worship-leaders","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}