Live Talk with Dwayne Moore

Join Dwayne Moore for this episode of Live Talk. Dwayne Moore interviews long-time missionary and church planter, Mitchell Lawrence, about how to empower others and release them to do ministry and move a vision forward. Dawn Kelley also shares a devotional, and Dwayne shares some NLW Community News.

Join Dwayne Moore for this episode of Live Talk. Dwayne shares an interview with Dr. Clay Hallmark about a new church-wide Bible study on prayer called “HE. WE. THEY.” Dwayne also shares a Biblical teaching on worship from Romans 12 that he recently taught to church leaders in Pakistan.

Join Dwayne Moore for this episode of Live Talk with special guest Scot Longyear.  Scot is the lead pastor of one of the fastest growing churches in America. Scot talks about leadership issues facing church staff members today. You can more information and resources as Scot’s website: https://scot-longyear-productions.square.site

Dwayne also shares some Next Level Worship community news.

Join host Dwayne Moore for another episode of Live Talk. This week Dr. Randy Norris joins Dwayne for a discussion of how his church blessed their pastors during Pastor Appreciation month. Then, Dawn Kelley from Next Level Worship interviews author and speaker Caris Snider about her new book, Anxiety Elephants for Tweens.

The “how” of worship does not matter until we understand the “why." John uses Romans 12:1-2 to explain the “why” behind our worship of God. Why do we worship? Because of God’s marvelous grace and redemption!

Dwayne Moore explains what true worship is as defined by the Bible. This show was originally broadcast on the Next Level Worship Radio Show in southern Africa. nextlevelworship.com

In this week’s inaugural episode of The Heart of Worship Podcast, Dwayne & Stephen discuss the recent Grammy nominations and artists for 2020, and why it’s important for Christians to be aware of secular music and culture.

They also discuss their struggles with having enough time each week and how they manage it to make the most of their time.

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Topics & Tips for Worshipers & Leaders

The Heart of Worship Podcast is a weekly talk show about current events and biblical perspectives for worshipers and leaders.

We talk about hot topics in our culture today, giving a biblical perspective on how those things relate to worship and leadership.

We also share what we are learning. These can be anything from simple, practical tips to deep spiritual truths. We talk about books and articles we’ve discovered that can be helpful to worshipers and leaders.

This podcast is presented by NLW International and hosted by Dwayne Moore and Stephen Moore. Dwayne is a best-selling author and a leading voice on biblical worship. Stephen is a songwriter and lead singer for Carrollton.

Recently during one of our LEGACY Coaching sessions, Dwayne sat down with Stephen Moore, lead singer for Carrollton, to discuss songwriting with the online students. Here is part of that conversation…

Live Coaching Interview with Stephen Moore

As we start out tonight having a conversation about this let’s set the stage by saying, trying to write hit songs that everyone likes, that’s not our goal. Secondly, we got to just start doing it in order to develop this gift and that’s what I want to encourage you. If you don’t get anything else out of tonight I want you to feel inspired by Scott singing that song that he wrote and hopefully by Stephen encouraging you and me as well and going, you know what, I think that’s something we could try in our church. If that’s as far as we go, that would be a huge way to make an impact in your church.

We, at the Station Church in Birmingham, Alabama, wrote some songs that represented what our church was going through at the time and a couple of them became very popular within our congregation.

Stephen, I want to turn it over to you to just talk to us, share with us some tips of, generally speaking about songwriting or what you consider to be a quality song. Just talk to us.

Anybody can write a song

Stephen: Yeah, yeah. Well, I am certainly a believer that anybody can write a song. Anybody. It doesn’t matter your musical experience, your musical position, whether it’s at a church or otherwise. Anybody can write a song. Why is that? Because I think you only need two things. You need an appreciation or enjoyment for music, meaning you need to like music. I think that’s a pretty fair statement and then the second thing is you need to have an opinion. That’s it.

Dwayne: You need to like music and you need to have an opinion.

Stephen: Yes. In other words, you need to have the want to write music and then you need an opinion, the ability to be able to look at something and say, I like this or I don’t like that.

Dwayne: Okay, never thought of it like that. Okay.

Stephen: If you have the want and you have the ability to form an opinion then you can write a song.

Dwayne: Wow, okay. Okay. That boils down-

Stephen: Ready to go. That’s it. That’s all I got. No I’m just kidding. Now if you want to write a good song.

Dwayne: Oh, a good song, okay.

Stephen: That’s when it starts getting complicated. I actually heard it shared like that. It may have been in a Ted talk that I stole it from.

Dwayne: Oh okay, a Ted talk.

Stephen: And I love opening with it because in talking to people about writing music, the experience and skill sets of those people vary from very experienced and seasoned to not at all whether it’s in songwriting or even in music in general and the way he opened with that statement, with that idea just made it feel so accessible.

Dwayne: Yeah, it does. I’m still absorbing it, to be honest, but yeah.

Stephen: Yeah, and so it’s just the idea that everyone has something to contribute to that if they choose to and if they want to.

Dwayne: But it’s that second one that I’m still, that opinion. If they have an opinion.

Stephen: The ability to choose one thing over another thing.

Dwayne: Okay.

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Excerpt from an interview with Dr. Herb Armentrout during one of our recent Worship Leader Coaching Sessions.

Herb Armentrout: I love this. I’m fired up about sharing some things here. We know that worship is our first priority but born out of our passionate expression of worship, we must share the love of Christ outside the walls of our church. It goes back to that thing that the measure of our worship is what we do outside the walls of the church.

The passage upon which your book, Pure Praise, is based, Dwayne, I think says so much to me and to all of us about how we as musicians are called to lead the charge in kingdom advancement. We talked about that a lot, so that is a culture that we work to develop here over very intentionally over hears. It starts as I said with a personal heart burn for the lost, because if we don’t have it, it’s difficult to encourage that.

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We discussed God's call in our, to us just as believers to follow Christ in sharing his love, and then we discussed the reality that the reality is that in our culture, people are not beating down the doors of our church. There's people all around us who are dying, and going to hell while we're worshiping comfortably.

We just began to ask God, where can we begin as musicians to share our faith in Christ through word and song. Though, here's some things that we've done in terms of preparation for going outside the walls of the church. One of them is we have every single group, every single group I think, without exception. We do an annual evangelism training. It's not like you come on a Sunday afternoon for two hours. It really is kind of woven into about two or three rehearsals, about the same time each year, and we learn every year, or review a plan for sharing our faith. ABCs of salvation. Four spiritual laws. Roman Road.

Normally I would tie that training into a pre-mission trip. It's different times because the groups go on mission trips, but we also do it with our senior adult choir, who mostly ministers locally. We talk about how to have conversation segues that will work either day to day or on mission trips or we can move from, talk to them about everyday common things to having a spiritual conversation.

We're talking about this at least once a year, and the hope is, for high school choir, like in four years, the kid's going to know four different ways to share their faith, four different plans. One of them, is probably going to stick, because I, you know what? I can do the Roman Road. I can remember four, I can remember four scriptures. In regard to mission trips, we just remind kids and all of our folks that missions is a lifestyle. It's not an event. We're hoping that folks connect the dots between what we do as a choir outside or whatever the music team is outside the church to our everyday life.

We talked about this one year. I think we were headed to Washington DC with our high school choir. The goal was Washington DC,