What If Your Friend Showed Up? (6 of 6)

This week I am having a guest blogger - Forefront's worship leader: Joe Heilman. He is fantastic at what he does and you can learn a lot from him. So here he is:

Everything changes when it’s your unsaved friend showing up for the first time. It makes you put everything you do as a church under the microscope. You know how to lead worship for all your saved friends. You do it every Sunday and it’s cool. Now it's time to lead worship knowing unsaved Bob from work is sitting in the third row. And BTW he came cause you keep telling him how different you’re church was. (No pressure.)

So there’s a good chance you may alter some of the things you normally say to help Bob understand what the crap is going on. You may even choose to cut a song, or explain a verse, or talk about something you never would have had he not been there. What’s even more interesting is that you may change the way you normally talk or act on stage because you know he’s there.

Vince has already talked about the Joe DiMaggio principle. It’s one of the principles we use that I like the best.
Every week someone’s unsaved friend is there. And they're looking to you to be the voice of the church they’ve bragged to their friends about. So do their unsaved friends the same courtesy you would your own.

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