Complete worship leader notes

I came across another passage of the book that I wanted to include. The author, Kevin Navarro, is talking about redemption and scripture, and the need to know the scriptures and their story and to celebrate it. Taken from page 43:

If faith is absent in our church, it is because ignorance of the Scriptures is escalating. Missionaries are laboring to translate the Word of God in new languages. Yet in our country where translations abound, the word is habitually neglected. This is a great tragedy in the modern church. As a result, we are producing people who lack faith because they don't know the word of God.



If you want to be a complete worship leader, fall in love with the Scriptures and the author of the Scriptures. Pray and sing over the Scriptures. Get the Word of God deep in your soul. Then articulate with clarity the hope that is within you. This is what it means to worship the Lord with accuracy.

I find my heart resonating with this, that even in ministry it is easy to become complacent about scriptures, to think more of the tune rather than the Word of God presented and celebrated in worship. It does seem true though that people in countries die for and tiniest bit of scripture and where we have it in abundance, it holds little value. How sad.