#1 Tip For Worship Leaders
Ok, I don't actually have the #1 Tip For Worship Leaders, but as a group perhaps we can come up with 100 Tips. Please add your tips as comments. The idea for this conversation came from Chris McGill's conversation about leading worship. I'll start the list:
#100 - Don't try to make me "feel" a certain way during worship. Tell me God's story, what God has done for me and what God continues to do for me. The appropriate emotions will follow.
#100 - Don't try to make me "feel" a certain way during worship. Tell me God's story, what God has done for me and what God continues to do for me. The appropriate emotions will follow.
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Permalink Reply by Linda Sines on -
#99 - Hold on to your "planned" service lightly. Be sensitive to the moving of God and be flexible to completely change everything. That means cancelling plan A . . to . . Z and all other "back-up" messages and plans, and rely totally on God's Spirit to use you and speak through you. Hang on tight! It will be the ride of your life, but the best trip you've ever had!
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Permalink Reply by Linda Sines on
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#98 - Be honest before God. Be honest to yourself. Don't be a poser.
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Permalink Reply by craig on -
Be prepared. You want to be free to experience the presence of God with the community. If you are not well rehearsed and ready you may just get in the way of the Spirit's activity in worship.
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Permalink Reply by Luke on
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This may be the most important thing all worship leaders need to know.
Linda Sines said:#99 - Hold on to your "planned" service lightly. Be sensitive to the moving of God and be flexible to completely change everything. That means cancelling plan A . . to . . Z and all other "back-up" messages and plans, and rely totally on God's Spirit to use you and speak through you. Hang on tight! It will be the ride of your life, but the best trip you've ever had!
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Permalink Reply by Steve Brown on -
Be the lead worshiper, not just the worship leader. Worship! Try not to let the logistics of the service get in the way.
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Permalink Reply by Nate Woodward on -
#95 - There will always be someone who dislikes your tastes, disagrees with your decisions, or suspects your motives. God will always love you and be pleased with your honest attempt to serve him. Seek to be pleased by God's delight in you, not by the approval of others. Learn to forgive as Christ forgave.
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Permalink Reply by Josh Linman on -
Steve, its a great point but a hard one to actually carry out. I know a lot of worship leaders also are in charge of the media team and all the other creative stuff that happens on a weekend. Taking some time to equip and empower volunteers will free you up to be that lead worshiper. You have any suggestions on how to do that?
Nate, my favorite video on the CWT site talks about this topic of focusing on catering to the people in the church or the people outside the church, check it out here. Great tips guys, thank you.
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Permalink Reply by Nate Woodward on
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Josh Linman said:
Nate, my favorite video on the CWT site talks about this topic of focusing on catering to the people in the church or the people outside the church,
Josh,
I wasn't really talking about catering to people inside vs. outside the church, though I do think that's a fertile area for discussion. Actually, I was riffing on something Rob Bell spoke about at the recent National Pastors' Convention, as reported on OutofUr.com. (I only read the website; I didn't go to the convention.) If we don't learn to forgive, we become fearful of criticism, quenching our sense of adventure. We also can become bitter or resentful, not good attitudes to have if we're trying to lead worship authentically.
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Permalink Reply by Chad King on -
#94 - Be courageous in our worship. Even though trying new approaches to worship might seem scary, it is through the facing of our fears that faith is made manifest.
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Permalink Reply by Joanna Harader on
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#93--Love the people you are leading.
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Permalink Reply by Eugene Grace on -
#92 - Maybe an adendum for Steve Brown's tip... Congregations are like ropes, You can lead them anywhere you are willing to go but you will never push them anywhere.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Bracken on -
You can only lead people as far as you're willing to lead yourself.
91) Be in the word of God every morning...
90) prioritize integrity in your relationships and personal lives...
89) be the same on stage as you are off. People can sniff out acting from a mile away. unless, I suppose, you're really really good.
90) Exercise and eat healthy
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