Good Monday morning. You may remember last year, Pastor John and I recorded five podcasts

episodes in Nashville, Tennessee at the Sing Global 2022 Getty Music Conference. We recorded

live before a couple thousand of you who were there. A lot of church leaders and worship

leaders and musicians were in the house. It was a great experience and very engaged as

you're going to hear. Today we feature one of those recordings on Getting the Sunday Morning

Worship Vibes Right. Here it is.

Let's get more specific into the music worship and how you begin a Sunday morning gathering.

Let's talk about the call to worship for a moment. Stephen is a listener of the podcast

and he writes in with a question about the call to worship. Hello, Pastor John. Thank you

for asking for us, Pastor John. It has helped me think through a lot of pastoral issues over

the years. I don't exactly remember where I heard it, but I remember you saying that

Paul's claim that Christians are sorrowful yet always rejoicing. Second, Matthew 6, 10.

That dual claim informed how you framed your welcome and call to worship in the opening

moments of the Sunday morning gathering. You believed it was your calling to set the tenor

of the corporate gathering in such a way that whether people were coming from a glorious

wedding feast last night or whether they just arrived from the hospital with a dying

spouse in the ICU, that this moment of worship together should feel relevant to both groups.

Can you expand on how your call to worship did this on Sunday morning?

Whether my call to worship did it, so others will have to judge, but that certainly was

my aspiration. It starts like this. The leader, let's just say the

pastor who's going to welcome people into this event right now called corporate worship.

At that moment, he's setting the tone for what he thinks should take place here. He ought

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