Over the past 22 years, I have planned over a thousand worship services at Stevens Creek Church. That is a lot of services! When you are planning services week after week, you can very easily lose sight of what you’re trying to accomplish unless you have something to keep you on track. So I wanted to share three questions I use to stay focused on creating incredible worship experiences.

Have you ever been in a worship service where the band sounds incredible, the light show is on point, and everything seems to be going right, but when you get to the end of the set and the worship leader starts to pray, the whole thing seems to lose momentum? The problem is the prayer has no focus or direction and the leader is just saying a bunch of different phrases that don't make sense. This is one of my pet peeves with worship leaders. We have to do a better job of directing our prayers at the end of our worship sets. If you lead worship often, your prayers can have the tendency to get stale and lack purpose. So I started using this three-step process in all of my prayers.