At the Acts 29 Denver Bootcamp, Jeff Vanderstelt exhorted church planters and pastors to cultivate a disciple-making culture in
their churches. He lists five simple, intuitive but rarely practices ways to informally make disciples:
1. Encourage a disciple-making culture.
2. Make your life visible and accessible to others.
3. Live with your leaders in community.
4. Live as servants together
5. Make sure your leaders live on Mission
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If you liked the new song Austin City Life played on Sunday called “The Master’s Calling”, you’ll love the rest of Thad Cockrell’s album To Be Loved.
“Too many musicians, not enough theologians.”
This might be the epitaph of the Emerging Church ten years from now. This would be unfortunate, but it’s not too late to change the legacy of the Emerging Church. One place to start would be with 
church “worship leaders”. I seriously wonder how much theological reflection goes into writing some of our “great worship songs” of the past ten years. We’re in a famine of theologically rich, musically excellent music for the church. Maybe you feel the hunger pains?
But writing theologically correct songs isn’t all that it takes to change this potential legacy. Writing theologically rich worship songs is one thing, leading a church into engagement with that theology during music and through the week is quite another.
Theological Reflection on “Worship” Sets
While I’d like to reflect more on how the Emerging Church already needs reform, I also want to offer constructive solutions. One way to help is to consider “how to reflect on a music set.” What governs set selection? Pragmatics, Music, Liturgy? Here is the theological reflection that went into a recent worship set by one of our music leaders. Be sure to pay attention to the questions she asks, how she wrestles through theme, theology, and music (italicized) to help lead the church.
Theologically Reflective Music Represented Here
As church leaders it can be difficult to read the books we need to read. We are often overwhelmed with emergency reading—reading in areas of the church where we are deficient (e.g. children’s ministry, church discipline, missional church, counseling, best practices). We scour blogs and books for practical insight, inevitably digesting half-baked ideas and practices.
If we aren’t careful, we can get indigestion by consuming this stuff. Our diet devolves. We get bogged down in best practices instead of diving deeply into the Bible and our culture. What we need is good theology and missiology.
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