WorshipGod: hosted by Sovereign Grace Music for anyone who plans, leads, or participates in the Sunday gathering.

Every WorshipGod conference seeks to equip and encourage pastors, leaders, musicians, tech personnel, and songwriters in three areas related to planning and leading congregational worship:

• Theology, covering areas like the nature and character of God, a biblical theology of worship, the primacy of God’s Word and the gospel, and more.

• Heart, addressing the attitudes, motives, purity, integrity, family life, and passion of the worshiper.

• Skill, applying to areas like musicianship, leadership, and communication.

Each WorshipGod conference also features general topics that benefit non-musicians and non-leaders.

Every WorshipGod conference includes giveaways in each session, free lunches, lots of laughter, and a serious pursuit of encountering God. Participants tend to want a biblical foundation for what they do, see worship in life as important as worship in song, and highly value the local church. We aim for a family, non-hype feel at the conference, well aware that Sunday mornings shouldn’t be characterized primarily by production and performance, but by the participation of God’s people.

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Life Together: The Gathered Church, a regional worship conference meant to strengthen our convictions about why we gather as local churches, will be held at Cornerstone Church of Knoxville, July 29-31, and Covenant Fellowship in Glen Mills, PA, Sept. 2-4.

After more than a year of trying to figure out if we can meet as a church, how we meet as a church, and where we can meet as a church, we think it’s the perfect time to remember why we meet as a church. 

And if you’re not a member of a Sovereign Grace church, we’d love for you to join us. We figure we’re not the only ones who are more grateful than ever for the privilege of gathering with God’s people each week. 

And we pray this conference will help us do that with greater joy, faith, and fruitfulness. 

The cost is only $15 for an individual, maximum of $35 for a family. You can register for either event here.

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Bob Kauflin (@bkauflin) is director of Sovereign Grace Music. He equips pastors and musicians in the theology and practice of congregational worship, and serves as a pastor at Sovereign Grace Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He writes at worshipmatters.com and is author of True Worshipers: Seeking What Matters to God. Bob and his wife, Julie, have six children and a growing number of grandchildren.

The full post originally appeared on Worship Matters, on June 14, 2021.