Worship Music Workshop
Time: Thu 9:00AM
Venue: Library
Style: Workshop
Description: Sing The World You Want To See
This pre-festival workshop is for people who are searching to find and/or create new music for local church worship that has the same overall radically inclusive “flavor and tone” as the Wild Goose Festival itself. It’s one thing to come and enjoy music and speakers and art that is inclusive, expansive, progressive, justice seeking, and earth-honoring. But what about the songs we sing in our local churches? The Convergence Music Project (CMP) came into being in 2016 to address this need for new music with the same kind of theology, language, and world-changing focus that folks who attend the Goose long for in their worshipping communities. As author and Church historian Phyllis Tickle once put it, “Nothing carries the message of spiritual transformation and social change more powerfully than the music we sing.”
During this workshop we will explore the kinds of songs and messages we need to be singing in our churches these days. Songs that reflect the best of how we understand the essence of the Gospel of Jesus the Christ and Spiritual Truth at this moment in history. We’ll hear music from some of the best-selling artists on the CMP website, explore the role and power of music in worship, get into some best practices around bringing new music into congregations, how to help communities sing with passion and joy, discuss the art and craft of songwriting, and actually write a song together.
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