Corporate worship values: a year later.

A year ago we were six months away from moving into a new worship center.  At the time, this giant project of ‘moving in’ was more a source of anticipational flurry than anything else.  (I just made that term up, by the way. Anticipational Flurry. Great band name, plus also the source of most of my anxiety.) I spent time writing down questions I had about how we might need to operate differently in our new space.  I called a few worship leader friends to ask questions about how they run their teams and their weekly production cycle. I ate breakfast with my husband once a week to put ideas and strategies around all of my questions.

I just found some of these brainstorming documents full of all these questions.  We’ve now been in the new worship center for six months and have a fairly sustainable strategy for how we do things every week, so most of my questions no longer apply. But… I also found more timeless things that I wrote down.  And it made me pause. 

Oct 6, 2009
What we value for firstMBchurch worship experiences:

• God focused; God honoring
• creativity
• technical excellence
• use of the arts to convey a message

Why value creativity?

• value variety b/c it combats complacency
• value creativity b/c God is creative
• value multi-sensory b/c we have different means of connecting to God  

Ok so have I’ve actually put action around these things? have I shared this list with anyone else? Well, no, I haven’t. But now that I’ve stumbled upon this again, I will.

So. What would YOUR value list look like?