From David: Today I have the honor of featuring one of my favorite bloggers, Michael Perkins. Michael is an incredibly kind, gifted, insightful leader who blogs over at The Handwritten. Check out his blog and follow him on Twitter. And don’t be shy when it comes to commenting. He won’t bite 😉

I pastor a church in Louisiana.

And up until a month ago my wife lead worship for us. You would think having your wife lead worship would be awesome (it is), but it’s difficult when she’s not called to lead worship.

To be honest she was filling a need. And she was coming dangerously close to burning out.

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Lift up your eyes and look.

See the 80s rock & roll guitarist at the altar checking out your pedal board. He wants to talk to you about the good ole days.

Right beside him is the 14 year old, punk rock drummer twirling his sticks.

He doesn’t want to talk as much as he wants to sit behind your drum kit and show you how it’s done. But he’ll just want a few more toms and a double bass pedal before he does.

It’s the new guys.

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For those of you who downloaded my ebook yesterday, thank you.

Thank you for serving your local church so faithfully. Thanks for being a visionary leader. And thanks for helping make this community what it is. I appreciate you.

Today I wanted to present a follow up post to the message in Beyond Sunday.

There’s always a tendency among visionary leaders to lead from their task lists – to plow through and get things done. Many call it “hustle”.

It’s the place where we stop depending on God and simply work hard to achieve.

We forget that “all things are possible” with God and simply buckle down and work hard to accomplish goals.

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If you’re a worship leader, routine is the name of the game. You pick songs, you program services, you rehearse your band, you lead worship on Sunday. Rinse and repeat.

But how do we move beyond the routine and really make a difference? How do we move beyond Sunday?

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From David: Today’s post is a guest post from my friend Rob Still. Rob is a veteran worship leader who has a lot of experience engaging the next generation. Today’s post is a relevant post for us all, whether old or young, helping us engage the next generation in worship. See you in the comments!

I’d like to offer some thoughts and ideas to David’s post, “How Do You Engage A Younger Generation In Worship?”

He said:

“Older worship leader, they don’t hate you. They just have a hard time with your music. … How does a 45-60 year old worship leader engage a 14 year old in worship? Is it even possible?”

Good question – When are you too old to lead worship? 

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