Blog - Beyond Sunday Worship

Mar 14 2012

How Worship Leaders Can Use Weakness To Their Advantage

Just because you’re the leader doesn’t mean you’re the best at everything.

Matter of fact, you probably have many areas of weakness.

The best leaders know that…and create space for others.

Mar 12 2012

What Does It Mean To Lead Prophetic Worship?

[This post is part of a brand new blog series, “Your Guide to Practicing the Essential Skills of a Worship Leader“. Check out the other posts here.]

Prophetic worship. We’ve heard the phrase many times.

But what does it really mean?

Is it lingering on the same song for 10 minutes?
Is it making up your own spontaneous phrases?
Is it groanings and utterings that no one can understand?
Is it just being weird for weirdness’ sake?

Today we’re going to discuss the ins and outs of prophetic worship. What is it? How can you improve? Why is it important?

Mar 09 2012

The Honest Truth About Worship Teams, Song Arrangements, And Monitor Mixes

[This is a guest post by Doug Gould, founder of Worship MD]

“The problem with common sense is that it’s not too common” – Anonymous

What is common sense to every professional musician at every gig is virtually unknown in the church.

Why? Because those serving on the worship and tech teams are volunteers.

Over the last ten years I have presented workshops to hundreds of worship and technical teams offering practical, common sense solutions to the problems we are having in our churches as they relate to music and sound.

Mar 08 2012

The Intersection Of Artistry And Pastoral Ministry: Where Are You?

Are you an artist or pastor?

A leader of people or a creator of art?

That’s a tension I live with every day. And I know I’m not alone.

Mar 07 2012

The Quiet Power Of An Introverted Worship Leader

We’ve been talking a lot recently about our presentation as worship leaders. We need to improve our public speaking. Better yet, we should improve our people skills.

I can already hear it:

“But I’m an introvert! I don’t really like being in front of people and I don’t know what to say when I am! Does that mean I can’t be a good worship leader?”

Hardly. Matter of fact, you should use your introversion to your advantage.