 Hey guys, welcome again for this second session of worship ministry. Let me share my screen again Get started awesome, okay, so We see how the Jesus music from Jesus movement from the 60s and 70s was fully developed by 1980, okay, we are in the notes page 29 Again, all of these are also just a few some of the artists who are very influential in that era, okay? and in the 1990s This we started seeing the Hillsong movement coming in the integrity and Hosanna music Which was led by Ron cannoli and Don Moven. It's kind of peaked. You know, there was a lot of Albums after albums being released And it was also in the 90s where you might have heard of this movement called the vineyard Music which was from the UK or the England in the Britain side. Okay vineyard music was also getting popular, you know, so And So basically the music from the West was During this time was only divided into two two sections or two categories not sections Sorry, one was the Afro-American gospel music. Okay, which Which later got to know as the urban contemporary Contemporary gospel, which was very famous in the Afro-American churches that you know as they call it, you know the gospel music in today's In today's language, they call it They they call their kind of music as the gospel music which is predominantly played in their churches while on the other hand in the other mainline churches in Southern Baptists, you know, you have artists like Bill Gaither, you know, which is more country Kind of country style and whatnot which became more famous So there were just two main categories that kind of popularized in the 90s and evolved. Okay, and then in From 2000 till present once again, I've just mentioned just a handful of You know Musicians artists whom we still listen to right now, right? Like Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, Paul Belosch, Michael W. Smith, Hillsong Jesus Culture, Elevation, Worship, just to name a few, right? so I want to play as a video again, you know of a Practical demonstration of all these different styles that was influenced by Jesus' movement and the Jesus music From the 70s and the 80s and 90s. Okay So just bear with me. This is again, like I'm saying, it's for more practical Ideas for us to get into start understanding music differently. Okay, so this is a video of Paul Belosch He demonstrates, you know, just one song that can be done in different styles Okay, and I'll tell you later as to why I chose to decide to play this video. Okay, so here it is. I Hope you all can see So here we go. Oh, you're not able to hear. Okay. Okay, okay I'm sorry, let's see if you can fix that. Sorry, I just bear with me and this issue was happening last time as well Bowie Can you just give me another minute? Let me see if I can get that video from YouTube. Okay Sorry guys, I did not expect this Apologies Okay, let's see if I can Find them. Okay. It's easy to fall into a boat says in Psalm 33 3 play skillfully and shout for joy and these guys are they sure know how to play skillfully and That's what this Segment is going to be looking at how we can kind of get out of the rut kind of expand our style base and we're gonna start By taking a traditional Him all hail the power of Jesus name and we're gonna start off just very traditional And then we're gonna run it through the grid of various styles and kind of see if we can get a little creative with some of these songs that have become oh Maybe over familiar Very too traditional. Let's see if we can kind of breathe some new life into the musically and then we're gonna break Each style down and talk about what makes that style what it is So we're gonna talk about reggae and RMB Maybe a samba. Maybe country. Maybe some Celtic kind of stuff. So Let's just start off. We're just very traditional Jason, you know, I'm sure you've played this before all hail the power just singing in the key of F I'm gonna try that Jason And Man, you know sometimes traditional is the best yeah, you can't really improve upon what is the original Man that just there's something powerful about that and as we go through some of these styles Let's keep in mind and ask ourselves does the style fit the mood of the lyric or the meaning of What the song's trying to say sometimes we can do more damage than good By trying to get too cute with a classic hymn like that and doing something really Funky or something too cute and it just kind of loses the whole effect of the song, but that was beautiful okay, I So why don't we start off with running it through just kind of an acoustic guitar approach and this is a an arrangement just Just being an acoustic guitar player and not being able to play the piano like that This is one approach that we took recently so we'll just try thinking like Celtic and Let's just try this together guys three four And so let's just kind of break this style down a little bit. I Was down here Kind of an F5 isn't the key of F and you can you can look at this chart We'll put that up on the screen there. You can also download this chart at leadership comm So I'm in I'm doing an F5 no third just kind of gives it a real open sound Okay, so he talks about the style I mean, this is more for the worship team, you know for their training and whatnot So I'm just gonna fast forward a little bit and go just for us to see the styles or different styles of music that they play Okay, so let's see if I can find Let's see Find a more fun one Reggae, yeah, it's okay. Let's see Of the same song. Okay reggae reggae great. It's a Man, I always use this when I've done a chorus many many times and it's starting to get old and yet It's still a great chorus. I always kind of that's one of the first filters I put it through as the reggae filter and all of a sudden Let's take out another style of the same song that section It's so that's just you know, so he had the traditional him You know, he started off seeing the him just traditionally and then the couple of styles that was the Celtic style, which is again influenced from the UK region right Celtic the music that comes from the UK region England Britain Scotland Ireland Music that comes from that region is famously popularly known as the Celtic And then we saw that he also had the reggae style which comes from You know the Bahamas the West Indies Island, you know the reggae Which is too good and then the classic rock You know of the same song, right? I wanted to play those videos just for us to see the impact that the You know, how the Christian contemporary music has evolved how it's impacted that the worship music as well, right? So that was the reason behind it and also another aspect of looking at it is like Let's say you eventually become a senior pastor of your own church and you want to hire a worship pastor or a worship leader of fools in a full-time and you want to pay that person You want to make sure that this person is skilled that this person understand all these kind of musical languages So to speak right because the worship pastor or the worship leader who's a full-time staff has to train Your worship team members as well, right? So they need to understand the language of music In all these different genres that that can be used etc. etc. So that was another aspect The reason why I wanted to play these videos as well. So yeah, I hope that was helpful and fun and Okay But so let's take a look at the pros and the cons of Christian contemporary music, okay? It simply means the positives and the negatives of Christian content Okay, so first of all, let's look at the positives. So Contemporary worship never went away. Hey, you know, it's tired started in the late 60s But it still hasn't gone away. It hasn't faded it every Every genre right now is kind of influenced This is the bedrock like the foundation for every kind of music that's being played now, right? So contemporary worship never went away It stayed strong in the churches that grew out of the Jesus movement After the revival stopped after after the Jesus movement stopped as well It stayed back in the churches like Calvary Chapel, which is one of the famous churches in the US You know in a more charismatic groups like the vineyard Which introduced hundreds of choruses that we still sing today and song writers like rich Mullins rich Mullins wrote a song You might know called awesome God. Our God is an awesome God. He reigns, right? He was very influential. So The positive here is that the contemporary Christian music did not really fade away The sound and the technology might have changed, right? We just have a more expensive guitars more expensive Equipments expensive mics expensive music boards and whatnot, but all of that has changed but You know the contemporary Christian music the influence of that never really left the church right, so the fact that contemporary music is Intense and purposes 40 years old And in many church many growing churches it has been mainstream for the last 20 years Okay, this is very important for us to understand. Okay, so when we say 60s and 70s And we can we just pause and see it's almost 50 years now the CCM the contemporary Christian music has just lasted for 50 or 40 odd years 50 years almost and this music this contemporary music has been like the main stream you know For the growing churches in the last 20 years Last 20 years is nothing but the 2000s even 1995 onwards, right? Larry Normans upon this rock which had jumpstart Jesus music came out 42 years ago You know in the From the band the first second chapter of ax album it came out 37 years ago And some of the albums of Petra also came around 30 35 years ago And Petra is another band that's released almost over 30 albums Over 30 albums and just to think that it was all released almost 25 years ago 20 years ago 30 35 years ago It's and it's still, you know going strong. It's just amazing. So the positives here is that every Church that is being influenced by this contemporary Christian music It did not really fade away, but it just kept evolving Only kept evolving from the 80s from Keith Green to the 90s Michael W. Smith Hill song to the 2000s where Chris Tomlin and Paul Belosch were becoming famous and now we have Bethel music And elevation all of them, you know have that same You know contemporary Christian music influence from the 70s and they're only going That's the positives now. What are the negatives? You know that that that's happening. That's First thing is Christian awards Okay When it comes to Christian awards is that there doesn't seem to be much of the kingdom or counter-cultural about our way of rewarding I'm just reading the text and explain rather it appears We pattern our award shows in the same way the world does and applaud The same things that define success in their eyes What is success in the worldly eyes the popularity of an artist worship leader or or chart topping song and Who was able to sell the most albums singles, etc, right? now the whole Generation seems to be struggling with compromise and a misguided Longing for stage platform fame lights and human recognition, etc The GMA dev awards is an example So in my opinion worship was never meant to function like an industry Worship is a priesthood Okay, that really needs to sink in as one of the negatives or Impacts of the CCM is that the awards, right? There's nothing different if you look at the dev awards, for example Everybody's celebrated the same as how an Oscar winner or a Grammy award winner and whatnot. What's he? Awards in its wrong Right, I wasn't itself or rewarding or acknowledging or recognizing someone's effort and work is not wrong But the fact that we do it the same way as the world Is a little surprising it's a little shocking and maybe we could do something about it, right? You know, acknowledging that someone has written a beautiful song. It's nothing wrong with it at all, right? but then You know somewhere if seems like worship ministry has become an industry and And it's not a priesthood Anymore, right? We just learned in the last chapter is like worship and ministry Is service isn't it? And that's what the priests did we now In second Peter Peter says and in Revelation 1 5 says Through the blood of Jesus he has made us a royal priesthood Okay, so as priests we are there to serve not really for you know to make fame and glory and Treat worship ministry as in just another industry of the secular world, right? So that's one of the first negative points and the second negative point is the banned mentality Okay, banned mentality. So there are six key distinction between bands and Local church worship ministry. Okay in short, it's LCWM. So everywhere you see LCWM It simply stands for local church worship ministries. Okay, so one of the negative impacts of the of the CCM era is it's kind of you know Brought in this banned mentality into the worship teams of the church. So what is the what are they? Let's look at a few. Okay. The first one is a Band is finite. It's a closed circle But a local church worship team is an open All right, what do I mean by that? So because of our exposure to this musical culture, we often assume the following Incorrect statements. Okay first one Our worship team is strongest when it is us for and no more Because there is chemistry only between us and We can't develop the chemistry with other people. That's the band mentality Which is not right The and second point is the ultimate goal of a worship team is excellence Which can only be achieved by the same group of musicians playing together for a long period of time so that they fully know each Other's playing styles and can produce music that is tight Once again talking about chemistry and whatnot. So all of these points are Incorrect statements, right worship team is it's it's not it can't be a closed circle You can't say it's us for and no more nor worship team when we look at again the David's worship team from first Chronicles 25 It was not a closed circle, right? It was open for the young and the old for the teacher and the student That is the mentality of a worship ministry, which is so different from the band mentality, right? The second part is a band is about ownership But the worship team of a church is about stewardship Okay, the ownership mentality is concerned with It it's my song. It's my music, you know, I wrote it my position my equipment It's just the mini me's, you know, it's my thing my my my my But you know the ownership says because of my years of faithful service, I deserve to play every Sunday You'll be amazed to see, you know Such statements and just but then yeah, I have come across There was very statement that was you know said towards me is like I deserve to play. I don't have to come to practice Because I have been, you know playing here for 15 years. So I deserve to play every Sunday, even if I don't come for practice You tell me if that's right or wrong But stewardship on the other hand is stewardship Everybody says stewardship with your mics muted. Thank you. I heard you So stewardship recognizes that we don't own anything, nor we have any rights to demand Okay, on anything we don't have any rights to demand, you know, Paul just simply puts it isn't if I were doing this Of my own free will then I would deserve payment, but God has chosen me and given me the sacred trust and I have no choice What then is my pay? It is the satisfaction. I get from preaching the good news without expense to anyone never demanding my rights as a preacher He so beautifully puts it Paul knew that he was crucified with Christ, right? And so we need to steward we are not here to boss around people and and just You know self-exhaught, you know, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do Just lift ourselves high That is the band mentality once again, okay, so we are looking at the negative impact of the CCM Which is a bottom band mentality into the can bring band mentality into the worship teams of the local church Okay, the third point is The band is an exclusive privileged group While worship team of the church is about serving Okay Band is a privileged group where the worship team is about serving. So Again, our culture tells us that a band is all about elevated platform the spotlight the lights, you know The stage the big stage the exclusive backstage area the green room Special treatment, you know, everything comes to you. You are being served All you have to do is sit in the green room and chill on the sofa and just go on the stage When you're ready to go and perform you know This this mindset of band exclusivity can still invade the church I'm not saying it is in the church, but it can invade and some churches you never know It might be there, right? It will often manifest itself by for example a worship team asking, where is my water bottle? It's supposed to be here, you know Every Sunday at eight o'clock, you know, I come for practice the water bottle has to be here You know such such demands Shows the band. There is this band mentality in the worship team member You know, I am a I am a worship team member not a common church member That means I will not listen I will not sit inside the church when the pastor is preaching for the sermon I am too cool. I'm a worship team member. I play my music. I come lead worship Then I go outside have breakfast and you know And whatnot so Sunday school and weekday ministries and all are not priority Sorry, brother, you know, I only lead worship on Sundays on the big stage when the light is on and everything So, you know, I let you go through those notes It's very crucial, right? Give you a worship team opportunities to serve the church and community without using music It's very important Right. Give you a worship team a chance to serve Way they don't necessarily have to play music. Let them learn To serve without their instruments and offstage This helps in building and develops character Okay So that's the third point and the fourth point is a band can be gender A gender based talent based looks or age prejudiced. Okay That means you can be very biased towards only one gender boy band Girl band You know spice girls a boys zone backstreet boys Well Whereas the local church worship team is open to all Once again, it's such a beautiful lesson from davis worship team, right the young and old teacher and the student If we were to look at popular secular and christian bands See if there are an out and out bands christian band, it's fine. They can be who they are, you know, like It's okay. But then what we are trying to address here is that same band mentality Can't invade the worship team members Be the same as the worship team because it's very different Worship team is different from a band Right. I have some of my favorite bands. Uh, like I said, let me reiterate and say this that there's nothing wrong You know being a christian band Right. There's one of my favorite all-time favorite bands is delirious You know, I'm sure you all Know delirious, okay Some of the songs that they've written is beyond their time So it's amazing. So there's a place for that and there's a place for the worship team members So the platforms are different. That's what we're trying to get at. Okay If you were to look at a popular secular or christian bands as sources of information and how to create a great worship band for our church We would have to exclude almost all women Anyone older than 40 or younger than 20 anyone that is not handsome or beautiful Any musician or vocalist that does not have a recording studio voice or talent All of them would uh, you know, uh Would not be part of the church worship team Right. So the criteria for selecting a worship team members should be based on are they faithful? Are they dependable? Are they humble? Are they teachable? Do they have a servant's attitude? So see the parameters of considering a person into a worship team is completely different from that of a band right And a band has band goals We need to sell this many albums by this year and uh, you know, we need to travel so many countries By this year, etc. Etc. And whatnot, which is all fine for the band, right? While for the worship team if a worship team member has a different goals from that Of the senior pastor Then there's going to be a lot of chaos and confusion Are you with me? Right. So, uh, you may find that as you focus on serving your senior pastor and your church Family god may open doors for you to make that recording that you've always dreamt of So the goal here of the worship team member should be to serve the vision of the church Okay and finally We conclude with this point is that a band is about performing While the worship team Of the local church is about facilitating The band sound great versus the presence of the lord was felt today We must increase versus he must increase We must be visible sound gear dress, etc. Versus our people viewing the one on the throne So if uh, if our hearts, um, I can pause here um, if our hearts, uh, you know And our attitude are in check You know, we can use we can take the good things that the contemporary christian music The jesus music movement has had to offer the church And leave out the band mentality and encourage our worship team members to have the right attitude right heart Then uh, you will have a healthy worship team, right? And uh, and how has this impacted some of the church? in Music scene in india in the modern days is when you look at example, uh Artists like sheldon banger Who's who's taken a lot of the english? Songs like worship songs and have translated in hindi for example like blessed be your name Which was written by matt redmond Which comes under the banner of ccm Um, let's be your name Even nachoonga is Undignified the famous english song i will dance i will sing you know um He's i think he's also written uh translated uh light of the world in hindi so you see how the contemporary christian music of the west Has also had its influenced on the church In india and how artists of the modern era have been influenced by that Why simply because they were being relevant to the generations of this day and age, right? So that's that's this whole thing about uh, you know the second chapter guys, uh, is one we just look at the history, uh, you know Where we saw on which we stand on today and the influence and the impact that it's had on the churches and the worship ministry although, right? Um, so do you all have any questions or any thoughts that you want to share? Any questions? Okay, that's one person. I haven't says no question Anybody else? But what did anything make sense to you today of what we covered? Yes, no, maybe speak to me guys Some of the songs you played in 60 seconds video That's a blown mind because I never knew that much old songs because Today we are singing that song I understood how much the impact the worship and songs and music Um on the people's life still that revival carries and still people love to sing that song Uh, that's amazing to that. I never knew that much old Yeah Yeah, thanks Thomas. Yeah Yeah, heritage is rich. That's beautiful. The foundations that we are standing on. Uh, this generation is standing on is incredible We are so privileged and blessed You know, there's actually a psalm. I forget, uh I think psalm 71 or something Uh, you know, I will not fade away until I raise my shout of praise until the next generation hears Uh, you know, it's such a powerful psalm and that's exactly what some of these people have done is In their shout of praise They've made sure that we hear You know their shout of praise and know that who are the you know, our god is and and I think that same responsibility falls on us and this day and age that Through our shouts of praise through our songs of worship through our lives of worship The next generation will know who our god is Um, and that's that's wonderful Anybody else would like to See the div uh, yeah, it reminds us of our childhood. Absolutely. Yeah Manu, are you okay? Yeah, okay. All right, uh All right, uh, thanks guys, so we will conclude today We'll stop here and we'll we'll resume once again, uh, you know next week with the next chapter. Okay Thank you all so much for joining in and I hope you could learn something today. God bless you Have a wonderful day. Have a wonderful rest of the week. Take care guys. Stay safe Bye