Do you ever feel pressure to change your worship style? Music is a matter of personal taste, and people often have strong opinions about it. Some may want you to freshen up your worship, introducing new songs and styles, while others press you to return to an older, more familiar form of worship.

Before you make a change, take a look at your current worship set. How does your church respond? How is your music received? Here are five reasons not to overhaul your worship style:

1. Your Church Is Happy With It

Check with the average churchgoer about the music you play. You may personally prefer something different, but that’s not a good reason to change. If nearly everyone is happy with it, don’t make a change just to suit your own wishes or the whims of a few.

2. People Are Engaged in It

Watch how people are worshiping on Sundays. Are they singing along and emotionally engaged, raising their hands or clapping? If so, changing your current music style could disrupt that engagement.

Worship music that directs praise to Jesus or declares His character to others pleases God.

3. Visitors Are Attracted to It

Worship can help reach those who don’t know Christ. If people come to your church because they like the music, if they find it easy to follow along, if they’ve told you they would be back because of the worship, then what you’re doing is working. Don’t change. Lean into your worship as an evangelistic tool.

4. Your Musicians Are Good at It

Churches vary greatly in the musical talents of their volunteers. Finding the right mix that matches the needs of your church and the abilities of your worship team is important. If your current style is a good fit for your musicians’ gifts, switching it up could be a mistake.

5. It Brings Glory to God

The central point of worship is not to feel good, attract others or even provide a musical outlet for your volunteers. It’s to glorify God. Those other things are good, but they’re byproducts of worship, not the point of it. Worship music that directs praise to Jesus or declares His character to others pleases God.

These are a few reasons to stay the course with your current worship style. Of course, if some of these elements are missing, it might be time to make changes. Be honest about the current state of your worship and the steps you may need to take to improve it.

Have a conversation with your worship pastor about your current worship style. Perhaps you should add new songs — or at least a few songs that are new to your congregation. It may require finding additional volunteer musicians, updating your sound system, rearranging your music set, or changing the overall style altogether.

Whatever you choose, the decision won’t be an easy one. But it is worthwhile if it honors God and draws people closer to Him.