Worship Podcast
When it comes to leading worship, you need more than just passion, the ability to sing, and a guitar in your hands.
If worship were simply a musical experience, that would suffice. But it’s not. It’s an experience with God. It’s pastoral. It’s people skills.
When fans attend a concert, they are there to watch and sing and give the artist their full attention.
When worshipers attend a worship service, they are looking for Jesus. The problem is, we often distract people from seeing Him.
You probably didn’t wake up this morning saying, “How can I really screw up my worship team?”
Nobody thinks that.
We all want to move our worship departments forward. To grow, develop, and improve.
But there are a lot of questions:
Many of us don’t know what to do so we resort to all we know how – playing it safe. Doing what we’ve always done.
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Sunday morning.
It’s that time of the week where you wake up a little stressed because of the responsibility that lies before you – getting a sound check, preparing your band, getting details in order, and praying to God that annoying buzz is not in the sound system.
But for a second, I want you to stop thinking about that.
Imagine that leading worship isn’t just a responsibility. It’s not just work. It’s something simpler, more beautiful.
If there was ever a challenge in the life of a worship leader, it’s balancing these three responsibilities at once.
Not only do we prepare and lead our band, we lead a congregation in worship. But we also personally connect with Jesus.
Is it possible to do this well? Or do some of these need to suffer?
True worship leaders are so much more than musicians, singers, and people who stand on a stage.
True worship leaders lead with their lives.
Sometimes it takes drastic circumstances to learn life-defining lessons like this.
I remember it like it happened yesterday. My dreams to serve God, lead worship, write music, and travel were dashed against the rocks.
I was sick.
So sick, in fact, that I couldn’t sing. I couldn’t strum my guitar. I couldn’t actually get up from the couch.