On the Key to a Powerful Service Close

• Posted By James MacDonald on March 25, 2009

I am trying on this site to both connect with people personally and resource those in pastoral ministry.  One of the things we get a lot of feedback about at Harvest is the way we close our services.  The message and the music have to be in sync, totally, or impact is lost in the critical moments that everything has been building toward.  I am always amazed at pastors who put hours into their sermons and then kind of ‘wing it’ at the end.  Here are some things we think about to make the most important minutes of the service also the most powerful.

 

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