Helpful Quotes from Bob Kauflin and David Powlison on Leading Worship

From Justin Taylor:

Bob Kauflin

“A worship leader should never say, “Sing it like you mean it.” We should always mean it.”

“People walk in every Sunday with the problem that everything in their lives has become bigger than God.”

“The worship leader links heart-stirring music with biblical truth . . . to let the Word of Christ dwell in people richly.”

“In both counseling and worship we can rely on technique and forget all we have is Christ.”

“Leading worship is a pastoral function before it’s a musical one.”

David Powlison

“Pay attention to the syntax of hymns. Some are about God, drawing our hearts toward Him. Others are unto God, giving our faith direct expression to God.”

“Counseling needs to do more than analysis and problem-solving; it needs to evoke the thing it seeks to create.”

“Biblical counseling is worship, and repentance, and faith, and hearing and loving and needing God.”

“Way more often than we imagine, people need reminding, not informing.”

“The world in which we counsel is the same world in which we worship & pray.”

“The word ‘technique’ is actually offensive in ministry.”