How to
Prepare Well

Step One: Remind Yourself of the Vision

Step Two: Prepare your Heart, Head, and Hands

Mark 12:30 - And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

  • Prepare Your Heart

    • Praying over the Set

      • Read through the whole Liturgy in PCO

      • Worship through the set.

      • Read through the Sunday Scripture Text

      • Pray and ask God to speak and move through it all.

    • Praying for the Team

      • Utilize Slack to Connect & Check-on Team before Sunday

      • Seek to better Know those you are Serving with. Unity is vital for worship and unity starts with those on stage with you.

      • Ask for Prayer where you need it and Pray for others.

    • Praying for the Church

      • There are no ordinary Sundays  (Read More -> #noordinarysundays)

      • God is building up his Church on Sundays

      • Pray for God’s people. Seek compassion for them. Know and love the people you lead.


Prepare Your Head

    • Preparing for the Set

      • Learn the flow of the whole service

      • Learn and take note the transitions in and out of each song

      • Learn the overall “feel” of each set.

    • Preparing for the Songs

      • Listen to Set on Repeat all Week

      • Check any Song Notes in PCO

      • Get Familiar with the Song Charts in PCO

      • Make notes where you need them.

    • Preparing for your Parts

      • Listen for any Key Parts on each Song (Any Hooks, Dynamics, Stops, etc)

      • Search Youtube for any Tutorial Help

      • Ask for Clarity or Help on Slack

      • Study the Whole Songs (Other’s Parts), know what others are doing so you know where you fit in and can play more dynamically and convictionally with others.

Prepare Your Hands

    • Practicing the Parts

      • Practice Key Parts with Click (In PCO Media Player)

      • Practice Key Parts with Song Audio

    • Practicing the Songs

      • Practice Playing through the whole Song

      • Practice Playing Transitions in and out of songs

    • Practicing for Stage (Displaying the glory and grace of Jesus)

      • Practice in Stage Position (standing, sitting, holding)

      • Practice Facial Expressions display the Song’s posture (Is it a joyful song or a contemplative song?)

      • Practice Physical Expressions display the Song’s Dynamics and Tones? (Is this a high energy song or a somber song?)

Jesus Must Perfect All Our Offerings of Worship

God sees and hears all of our offerings, perfected. God sees and hears as no human being can, all because our offerings have been perfected by the giver. The out-of-tune singing of an ordinary believer, the hymnic chant of the aborigine,…the open frankness of a primitive art piece, the nearly transcendent “Kyrie” of Bach’s B Minor Mass, the praise choruses of the charismatic, the drum praise of the Cameroonian – everything from the widow’s mite to the poured-out ointment of artistic action – are at once humbled and exalted by the strong saving work of Christ. While the believer offers, Christ perfects. It is all of Christ and it is all of faith. (Harold Best, MTTEOF, p. 155-6)

Questions to Consider

  1. What’s one way you want to grow spiritually this semester?

  2. What’s one way you want to grow in ability this semester?

  3. What’s one one way you can be more proactive in your rhythms to grow?

  4. Share this with your leaders and teammates, ask for help!