Worship Rehearsal June 2025

WORSHIP REHEARSAL JUNE 2025

June 27th, 2025 / 6:00 PM

OPENING

Pray

Reminder: We will finalize the rehearsal schedule at the end of tonight based on how much we get accomplished. Our goal is to determine keys and work through the big elements. Run-throughs before services will be quick sound checks and final ear mix adjustments. If needed, we can schedule another rehearsal before next month. Frequency will be team-driven.

Beginning next rehearsal, one of you will lead a 5 minute devotional to start rehearsal. Each rehearsal devo will be led by a different person.

Share what God is doing in your life

What worship means to you

Where you feel the Spirit is leading the team or church

“Before I share what God put on my heart tonight, I want to open it up.

If you’re leading a set tonight, or you’re one of the leaders on this team — take a moment to share one or two things:” What do you want to see built in our worship culture at The Shed?

What drives your heart as you serve in this role?

What kind of atmosphere are you praying we create?

WORSHIP CULTURE DEVOTIONAL

Rehearsal is more than music.

Tonight is not just for practicing music or getting parts right, it’s for preparing our hearts.

Rehearsal is where we learn to worship together - to become familiar and comfortable in worshiping in each other’s presence.

If worship feels awkward in rehearsal, it will feel performative in service.

If we only worship during services, we turn Sundays into performances. But if we worship together in rehearsal, Sundays become a continuation, not a production.

We’re building relational harmony as much as musical harmony.

The goal is authenticity and vulnerability - not just hitting the right notes, but offering our true worship before one another and before God.

Intimacy with God comes first

Our ministry flows from intimacy. Without intimacy, ministry becomes hollow - a form without power. This is especially true in worship.

Our worship on Sundays should be the overflow of our private devotion.

If we’ve been in the presence of God all week, then leading worship is simply inviting others into that same space.

But if we haven’t, we’ll spend half the service trying to get ourselves aligned - and by the time we are there, it may be too late.

What we practice, we reproduce

Rehearsal is the place we practice worship, not just prepare for worship.

We aren’t “saving it for Sunday.” We’re building it here so that when Sunday comes, we’re already operating from the Spirit and in unity.

Pour Over Night is our current focus, but what happens there should pour into Sunday mornings.

Worship should overflow from intimacy with God cultivated all week.

Don’t treat Sunday as warm-up. Let it be overflow.

CHURCH UNIVERSITY WORSHIP TRACK REVIEW

VIDEO 1: Great Leaders Cultivate Biblical Culture Slowly but Intentionally

Discussion: What does this mean to you? "The purpose isn’t to help you lead worship. The purpose is to help you spark culture. Kingdom culture, that is."

Call to Action: What do you struggle with most in understanding your true calling as a worship leader?

From Eythan: Video one talked a bit about everything needing to be reflective of scripture and if our worship doesn't reflect scripture, then our worship must change. Give me one example of something you've seen here or somewhere else, recent or historic, that you questioned the biblical roots of? Now, what's your favorite example of a clearly biblical worship practice or song? 

VIDEO 1.2: Identifying Kingdom Worship Culture

Discussion: A. How can we avoid emphasizing our manmade traditions in worship over biblical instruction in worship? C. Do you believe your congregation would be open to a shift in culture if they were being encouraged to move toward biblical expression? 

Call to Action: he first and second call to action says to "Schedule a get together with your pastor and worship team to ask honest questions about the current worship team culture." So I would like to take a few moments and ask the team these questions:

How do you see the worship culture of the Shed?

What would you like to see change?

What do you want to keep? 

From Eythan: The second video spoke quite a bit about worship as setting culture. We have talked about how you perceive our worship culture to be now. The speaker in the video said, "The deeper the revelation people have of the God they are worshipping, the greater the response is going to be."

How do the things we just talked about and the changes we proposed help people behold Jesus and grow deeper in that revelation? 

VIDEO 1.3: Evaluating Your Church Worship Culture

Discussion: Are you leading from survival mode? In what ways? What can you do to change this? From Eythan: What can I/we do to help?

On a scale of 1-5, where does the culture of your worship team sit when it comes to: - Lone Ranger to Unified - Rock Star to Servant - Dead to Alive - Singer to Worshipper - Sarcastic to Genuine

Call to Action: Call to action 2 said to make 2 goals for biblical change that you would like to grow into, over time. One for your church body and one for your team.

From Eythan:  Let's add a personal goal to that. What is your personal goal for biblical change that you would like to grow into?

WORD FROM PASTOR:

Pitfalls to Avoid:

Don’t go too fast

Never say "can’t"

Don’t command; invite

Never say, "This is how we’ve always done it"

Eythan’s Additions: 5. Avoid sarcasm and negativity

Biblical Worship is sacred, not flippant, casual, or depressing. Sarcasm and negativity invite a shade onto the light of worship that doesn’t help our journey into His presence.

If you’re going to say it (or let your face say it), be sure it is helpful to our progression into His glory.

Even our tone should lift people into His presence

6. Unity rests on relationship

If you find yourself out of sync with someone on the worship team, that's a sign that you need to build more of a relationship with that person. 

THE PRACTICALS

PLATFORM ETIQUETTE & EXPECTATIONS

Ipad & Music Stands

Worship Posture

Prioritize Reverence Always

Facial Expressions

Walking on and off platform

Side conversations

Adjusting Ears on iPad

Avoid distraction

Focus on what God is doing in the room

Stay connected to Pastor

Stay connected to Worship Leader

Stay connected to Preacher

Use DISCERNMENT

TECH TRAINING

How to use Playback App

How to tune in-ears (stage vs audience sound / tech role)

SONG PRACTICE

Casia’s Set

Courtney’s Set

Bobby’s Set

Sunday Songs (If time allows)

CONCLUSION

Monthly Rehearsal Schedule

Second Monthly Rehearsal? (Optional)