Let’s face it.
There are a lot of worship songs.
And with so many great songwriters like Matt Redman, Jason Ingram, Chris Tomlin, and Reuben Morgan cranking out such great songs, are you and I even needed?
Should we even bother to write?
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There’s a lot of factors that make a great worship song – melody, theme, structure, accessibility. But there’s an aspect to writing that we often overlook.
It’s your story.
The best worship song is the song you can sing from your gut – the lyrics that bleed from your heart – the melody that arises from your personal life experience.
It’s nearly impossible to talk about modern worship at length without the words “Chris Tomlin” entering into the conversation.
His catchy, universal songs have made their way in the worship team repertoire of nearly every evangelical church across the world.
Are You Ready To Start Writing Your Best Songs?
You’ve come to the right place.
Have you ever felt that your songs weren’t good enough? Do you find it nearly impossible to find time to write, let alone finish songs?
You’re not alone.
Today, I am asking for your help.
In just a couple of weeks I am releasing my second ebook – a book for aspiring songwriters called, “The Worship Songwriter: A Step by Step Guide To Crafting Your Best Songs.”
Any writer will tell you they need the help of others to get the word out.
Originally, I sent an email to my newsletter subscribers, recruiting a small group of people to join the launch team (some amazing people, by the way!).
I’ve decided to open this up to my regular blog readers as well. Unfortunately, I only have a few spots left, so you’ll need to act fast.
Do you wish you had more hours in the day?
Wouldn’t life be amazing if you could come home from your day job full of energy, spend quality time with your kids, listen to your wife, have a family dinner, and then work on your your songwriting craft into the evening?
Then, you lay your head down for a full 8 hours, awaking with a smile on your face and a jump in your step.
But it’s never that.
You’d have to be living in a worship leader cave to not recognize the resurgence of hymns in contemporary worship.
Hymns are here to stay. And as worship leaders, it’s important that we use them.
We all have our favorite songs – songs we sing over and over.
Songs that ignite a room.
Songs that make you cry, shout, rejoice, and sing at the top of your lungs.
It’s the plight of all songwriters.
We want our songs to be known, sung, and loved by the world. But rarely do they move past our own ears or the ears of our dogs.
It’s not that your worship songs aren’t catchy enough.
It’s not that they need more lyrics, better arrangements, and slicker production.
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