HOUSE CHURCH WORSHIP

Leading with Musicians

  1. Leading worship is not simply about singing songs, it is a heart of surrender and a desire for God’s presence. Leading people into his presence is the purpose. 

  2. If your church has musicians we recommend having someone lead and organize the songs each week. Having a rotation of leads helps to spread the load.

  3. Less is more, so if more musicians is distracting than consider one lead instrument to keep everyone focussed.

Song Selection:

  1. Often times house churches do not have projectors or means for reading lyrics. Some churches have tried printing our sheets of music or creating PDF’s each week for everyone to follow.

  2. We prefer to sing simple songs through the leading of the Holy Spirit without projection or additional means proves to create an intimate and powerful time of worship.

  3. We have found that choosing songs that are not difficult to sing and do not have an ample amount of verses helps with memorization.

  4. Having a set of about 5 songs seems to be enough in a meeting.

  5. A note about song selection, Worship is about exalting and glorifying King Jesus. Choosing songs that make much of Jesus, the work of the cross, singing to Him, testimonies of Him and His works, are all great directions. Worship is never about us and what we get out of it, worship is all about putting the focus on Jesus.

  6. The list below are the first 20 songs chosen for this year. We recommend using these songs in your worship week to week so that when we gather in the larger worship settings everyone is familiar with at least these songs. You can add your own songs as lead by the Holy Spirit as well but it would be great if your church knew these as well.

Recommended Worship List 2023:

• Agnus Dei
• Build My Life
• Doxology
• Good Good Father
• Goodness of God
• Here With Me
• Holy Spirit by Jesus Culture
• How He Loves
• Jesus We Love You
• Jesus What A Savior
• Nothing Else
• Nothing I Hold Onto
• Rest On Us
• Run To The Father by Cody Carnes
• I Exalt Thee
• His Name Is Jesus

No musicians?

  1. If you don’t have any musicians, we recommend using decent quality speakers to put on some worshipful music using your app of choice (Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, etc.); we have some playlists available below of our recommended songs for 2023.

  2. We highly recommend that you purchase a subscription to the music app service to avoid commercial interruptions. Often times it can be about $10 a month, let your group or a DMM leader know if you need assistance in covering these costs.

  3. We also recommend purchasing the best bluetooth speakers that you can afford to help create the atmosphere for worship. You can find small portable speakers on Amazon for $30-$100.

Worship playlist options:

Questions? Contact Eddie, he is one of our worship Leaders.