Help each person who is present to take part in praise and the other essential elements of worship.

• Make it easy for all to sing, and to pray.
• A good leader will help them to want to enter in, not to be mere spectators.
• Help the people to see that passive worship is hardly worship at all.

Find in John 4:24 a requirement for worship.

Find in 1 Corinthians 14:26 how Paul encouraged total participation.

To help the timid to participate, and help ushers to do their job in large churches, Leadership Handbooks of Practical Theology, edited by James Berkeley, Volume 1, section 13

If working cross-culturally, find out what are the cultural expressions of praise of honor. People will know how to use those forms to worship the Trinity, even though they find your preferred cultural (Western) forms uncomfortable or even blasphemous.

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