STEP 1: Start with the sermon.

Sermons that engage real life questions and issues with real life application help make worship more inspiring.

STEP 2: Involve more people.

Worship is not just a spectator event. Members of the congregation can be intentionally involved by planning for testimonies, encouraging a variety of special music, enlisting greeters and ushers, and arranging Scripture readers.

STEP 3: Visit other churches.

While every church is unique and no church should simply copy what another is doing, every church can learn from other churches what works in worship in their settings.

STEP 4: Look at the music.

Worship leaders are often surprised by how few hymns and songs are used when the list of music that is used is compiled over a year or so. While a steady diet of all new songs can be difficult, so can a steady diet of 10-12 hymns and gospel songs that are repeated throughout the year.

STEP 5: Use seasonal themes.

When the worship planner looks at the church year and the civil calendar and includes these elements in the worship service it becomes more inspirational since it connects to elements of life that are common to our culture.

STEP 6: Recognize time constraints.

Every local church will develop its own worship culture as to what is an appropriate length of time for most worship services. Worship that inspires will therefore be worship that is planned to fit within the accepted time frames of the participants.