A Better Worship Cabinet

Whether you work in a large church or a small church, whether you are new to liturgical leadership or a seasoned professional, figuring out how best to make a worship committee effective can be a challenge. In some churches, worship committees are little more than Arnie, Beverly, Chad, and Doris giving their two cents on what they do—or particularly don’t—like about what happens in worship. But if your worship committee members have been chosen well, they represent a broad spectrum of the congregation’s life and are made up of those most interested in the church’s liturgy. As worship leaders, it should be our role to empower and encourage the natural spirituality, creativity, and intelligence that our worship committee members bring to the table. Worship committees have the potential to be important sites for thinking about, imagining, and evaluating how our congregations praise God.

In some traditions, worship presiders are called “presidents,” so I suggest extending the metaphor and thinking of the worship committee as the cabinet—those people without whom the church would be a far less vital, worshipful, and interesting place. Here are five suggestions for what your own worship cabinet might do:

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