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Tips For Taking Your Worship Team to the Next Level

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.

Improvement = 1 simple step at a time

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!

Worship Leading Secrets: Don’t Hide Your Suffering

[Have you seen my other “Worship Leading Secrets” post? Check it out here.]

I was inspired recently by a blog post from Carlos Whittaker, worship leader & blogger over at Ragamuffin Soul. The honesty that exudes from this post really got me thinking about my own journey and what I consider to be another “secret” for worship leaders to embrace:

DON’T HIDE YOUR SUFFERING

I think many church leaders are a bit confused in this area. They preach healing but don’t know how to reconcile their own pain with what they preach. Until the sting of suffering hits you, it’s difficult to understand. While I wholeheartedly believe in the healing power of Jesus, I also struggle with ongoing illnesses.


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How You Can Start “Raising Up the Next Generation” Today

There is nothing more fulfilling than seeing someone else raised up through your influence. To invest in someone else and see them fulfill their destiny in the kingdom of God. That’s what we’re after.

But all this talk about “raising up the next generation” can seem really idealistic, vague, and romantic. When it comes down to it, can it really be done? Maybe you have a full time job in addition to 15 hours a week you invest into leading a worship team. You just don’t have time to think about anything but what needs done for Sunday.

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CD Giveaway: Harbour Live

Today is the beginning of an ongoing series here on the blog. My goal is to give some visibility to incredible worship artists that you may or may not have heard of. One of them is Harbour Live in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

From their website:

Harbour Live is the family of worship leaders and musicians at the The Harbour Church. Hungry for real encounters with the living God, our music is just a shadow of the lives we live with Jesus. We’re committed to writing songs that exalt God and His Kingdom in the earth, and we’re passionate about resourcing the Body of Christ with music that is grounded in the Word and Spirit of God.

Allow me to say that I was BLOWN AWAY by this album. First of all, I had never heard of them and I consider myself a worship music nerd. And second, because the worship songs are incredibly well done and fresh. I was also surprised to see Jeremy Edwardson in the producer’s chair. Many of you know of his work as lead singer of The Myriad, as well as producer of all Bethel Church and Jesus Culture albums. He is, in my opinion, the best producer in Christian music today. And it shines on this album.

This is already becoming one of my favorite worship albums of the year. Great voices, massive music, and a contagious longing for the Presence of God.

Justin Jarvis, worship leader at The Harbour, has graciously agreed to give me 5 copies of the album to give away here at davidsantistevan.com.

This contest is now closed.

Here are the 5 winners:

  1. Jenilee Goodwin
  2. Keri Welch
  3. Elizabeth Rhyno
  4. Jon Manna
  5. Chris Luzier

If you did not win, I strongly suggest you buy this album and support this fantastic church. You won’t be disappointed!