Keys to Worship Planning: Cultivating a Healthy Pastor/Worship Pastor Relationship

“One of the most important things you can do to keep the relationship healthy is to make a list of what you think is expected of you every week in order to get ready for the service.

Ask your pastor/worship pastor to the same. Then arrange a time to sit down together and talk through those lists. Make sure you both have clearly defined expectations for yourself and that you each know what you can expect from the other.”

– Nelson Searcy and Jason Hatley

The above quote is from p. 143 of Engage: A Guide to Creating Life-Transforming Worship Services.

Engage is your step-by-step, stress-free guide to planning creative worship services that allow for true life change. Comprehensive in scope, Engage provides teaching pastors, worship leaders, and volunteers with the tools they need to work together to develop and implement a worship planning system that improves communication, enhances creativity, and honors Jesus every week.

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About Nelson Searcy

Nelson Searcy is an experienced church growth strategist, pastor, church planter and coach, consulting with churches around the world. As founder of Church Leader Insights and the Renegade Pastors Network, he has personally trained more than 3,500 church leaders in over 45 denominations through live events, seminars and monthly coaching. Nelson is also the Founding and Lead Pastor of The Journey Church, with locations across New York City and in Boca Raton, FL. Nelson and his church routinely appear on lists such as “The 50 Most Influential Churches” and “The 25 Most Innovative Leaders.” He is the author of over 100 church growth resources and 18+ books, including The Renegade Pastor: Abandoning Average in Your Life, Ministry and The Difference Maker: Using Your Everyday Life for Eternal Impact, and At the Cross with the People Who Were There. He and his wife, Kelley, have one son, Alexander.