863: Reimagining Evangelical Worship: Aaron Keyes
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Keyes has been a worship pastor for over 20 years, currently serving as the worship pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, CO. Aaron is also the founder of Mere Worship, a network of worship pastors who are reimagining Christian worship, and the founder and director of 10,000 Fathers, a discipleship-orientated worship school.
In this episode, we talk about all kinds of things related to Christian worship and worship leading, including the difference between subjective and objective oriented songs, the need for character in a worship pastor, why musical talent alone is insufficient in a worship leader and how it can even be destructive, “Jesus is my boyfriend” type songs, and some potential problems with the CCLI industrial complex.
Check out the 10,000 Fathers worship school: https://worship.school
And the Mere Worship community: https://www.mereworship.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw. I have on the show today a new friend of mine. |
| 0:05.7 | I mean, we kind of go way back in terms of we met like, I think 11 years ago, just briefly, |
| 0:11.6 | we've kept in touch a little bit over social media. I've been following what Aaron's been doing |
| 0:16.8 | for a while. He's been following what I've been doing. But this is the first time we really had |
| 0:19.5 | an extended conversation. And look, guys, I only have guests on that I think are going to be |
| 0:25.2 | interesting people, interesting conversations. So I was excited about this one. Aaron seems |
| 0:30.4 | like a super interesting guy to me. I was blown away at how good this conversation was and how |
| 0:36.0 | thoughtful and authentic and mature, spiritually mature Aaron was. Not that it was expected |
| 0:44.8 | to be immature. It's also bad. Sorry, Aaron, if you're listening, but I was after I got done |
| 0:49.5 | this episode, I'm like, oh my gosh, I cannot wait for this conversation to go live. So it is now |
| 0:54.4 | live. I can't wait for you to engage this conversation. If you are a worship pastor, worship leader, |
| 1:01.6 | songwriter, or I would say a pastor or a leader in charge of kind of like hiring the next worship |
| 1:08.0 | leader, I am so excited for you. I think this conversation is I want every church leader to hear |
| 1:13.9 | this conversation. Anybody who's the slightest in the slightest way involved in the worship experience |
| 1:21.6 | at church needs to hear this conversation. You need to know who Aaron keys is. He has been a |
| 1:26.9 | worship leader for over 20 years with some well-known people, well-known leaders. He knows the |
| 1:35.3 | kind of Christian celebrity culture. He's extremely intelligent. He has a theological degree from |
| 1:42.3 | Northern University. And he also opened up a worship school called 10,000 Fathers where he is |
| 1:47.9 | training worship leaders to not just lead worship, but to pastor and disciple people into the |
| 1:54.5 | holiness of God. And I just I enjoyed every second of this conversation. If you would like to |
| 1:59.8 | support this show, you can go to patreon.com forward slash theology in a row. Support the show for |
| 2:04.3 | as little as five bucks a month to get access to the theology in the rock community. Thank you for |
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