Worship Podcast
[This post is part of a series on Tips For Taking Your Worship Team To The Next Level. Check out the rest here.]
There is a question you should be asking that many worship leaders overlook. It’s a question so important that your ministry will rise and fall on it’s answer.
On my last post on using Evernote to help you write songs, one of my readers, Brad Lebakken, left a helpful comment on a songwriter’s inspiration. I thought it was so good that I wanted to turn it into a post.
He says:
“I love listening to a lot of bands that are doing innovative things and are on the forefront of creating good art in music. I get inspired by that a lot. Also I love writing songs on my guitar in different locations and times of day. I find I write different when I’m in my house than when I write outside at night on my deck. Sometimes I’ll write in the church sanctuary or in the sun in my yard. I also write by messing around with different instruments like drums, banjo, ukelele, or keyboard. Sometimes just putting a drum loop on and then riffing over that can be productive. Sometimes finding a good song title or lyric first can inspire a song. The best thing is to be constantly writing. Lately for every 5 -10 ok songs I write there might be one good one that makes it to the recording studio. I usually throw out a lot of songs but it’s good songwriting practice.”
Brad has left us with some extraordinary insight into overcoming songwriter’s block:
We all want to be rockstars.
Ever since we were little boys and girls, we had our superheroes.
Whether it was Mr. Rogers, Superman, Blues Clues, Bono, Green Day, or Michael Jordan, we all want to influence a lot of people and have a popular name.
It’s in our nature to crave attention, pursue praise, and love popularity. It’s the very reason we’ve made poor decisions in the past and done stupid things.
Being a worship leader doesn’t change that. We want to be the Chris Martin of worship.
Contrary to what you may think, there are some attributes we can learn from rockstars to improve our worship leading.
I’m not advocating you begin a lifelong journey into sex, drugs, & rock & roll. If that was the case, this blog would be finished 🙂 Let me explain.
Here are 5 things worship leaders can learn from rockstars:
I’m super excited about this new blog series for worship leaders. If you lead a worship team, you’re probably always wondering how you can take your team to the next level, but don’t know where to start. Sunday comes too quickly for you to get your head above water and catch a vision.
I’d love to help not just by giving you easy answers but by helping you think through what is best for your worship team and your local congregation. We’re not all called to look the same but we are called to excellence.
There is not a “one-size-fits-all”, worship team mold we all should fit in. God moves in different ways and uses different methods to accomplish His sovereign purposes. My purpose here is to simply “stir the pot”, get you thinking, and help you figure out what would work best for your team.
As always, I love when you leave comments and I promise to read and respond to every one and help in any way I can. That’s the reason I do this!
As for the series, here’s what we covered:
Question: Are there other topics I should have addressed? Let me know in the comments!
Let’s break this down.
Worship is the act of ascribing worth to something.
You can’t ascribe worth to something if you don’t know anything about it.
I can’t truly, deeply worship calculus because, quite honestly, I know nothing about it (I must have skipped that during high school).
