Six Unique Additions Some Churches Have Made to Their Worship Services

Corporate worship is stale in many churches. These six additions can help re-engage your members during corporate worship and spur them to further ministry.

Some highlights from today’s episode include:

• For a church to be a praying church, you have to be very intentional about how you lead the church to pray during corporate worship.
• Use your offertory time to give an example of how the funds given through the church are ministering to those in the community and around the world.
• I wish more churches prayed for other churches in their community more often.
• When you celebrate the ministry of members, it should encourage others to join them in missions and ministry.

The six additions we discuss are:

1. Worship prep: A preview of the history and meaning of music chosen for the service.
2. Prayer guide: Helping the congregation know how to pray corporately.
3. Reasons for stewardship: An example of how God is using the funds given through the church.
4. Pray for other churches: A different church in the community each week.
5. Gifts to give your neighbors: One church gives each member a small loaf of bread to take to their neighbors.
6. Featured missional member: Each month or week a church member is featured for his or her ministry.

Resources mentioned in today’s podcast

• Seven Ways Churches Make Prayer Central to Their Worship Services

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