Worship Podcast
If I’m honest, sometimes I get bored.
I mean, I can lead worship without hardly thinking about it. I know the proper phrases. I know the right songs. I know how to get hands in the air and invite people to sing along.
But deep down, I know something is missing.
We’ve all been in situations where background vocalists were out of place.
They distracted rather than enhanced.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Your role as a background vocalist is to lead worship.
You inspire people.
You model what it means to approach the throne of grace.
And this post is to help you get there – to give you confidence as you lead others in worship.
Imagine this:
You are in charge. You have authority. The buck starts and stops with you.
You are a leader.
Breathe in the fresh air. You’ve arrived.
Leadership is wonderful. Until, of course, when it isn’t.
You can’t get volunteers to show up.
Your best people leave.
You don’t know where you’re going.
Nobody seems to be listening to a word you’re saying.
After a while, the leadership you always dreamed about has become an awful game of crises management.
If worship was all about singing songs, we wouldn’t need to attend church.
We could stay home, pop on our favorite worship CD, and sing until Joel Osteen came on TV.
It’s more than just the rote reciting of truth.
When we gather to worship, Almighty God is in the room. And that requires a special skill set for any worship team.
You can’t merely sing songs…God is present.
You can’t merely play great music…God has an agenda.
You can’t merely pick a great set list…God is speaking to His people.
The question is, “Are you listening, worship leader?”
You’d have to be living in a worship leader cave to not recognize the resurgence of hymns in contemporary worship.
Hymns are here to stay. And as worship leaders, it’s important that we use them.