- Don’t just worship. Lead people in worship. Work on keeping your eyes OPEN more and making eye contact with the people. DRAW them into worship. THAT’S a worship leader’s role.
- Think through the language you use. Don’t feel like you have use “Christianeese” words like “magnify,” “exalt,” “glorify,” and “sanctify” to lead worship. Just talk about loving Jesus when we sing. People understand THAT !
- Explain the words behind many of our praise and worship songs, Many of the lyrics are no more clearer than the language in hymns. Disconnected people do not know why they need to “run into the marvelous light” or worship God as the “Beautiful One” (that’s scary if you think about it).
- Ask yourself every week after you’ve created the flow of service: “OK, if a person disconnected from Christ and the church came into our service would they understand everything we’re doing, saying, and singing?” If not, change it.
- How things LOOK is more important than how they sound. 95% of people can not hear if the sound is “off” a little. Their ears are not trained like yours. However, their EYES are. How we look is more important than how we sound.This means lighting is probably way more important than sound. This means having worship teams that show ENERGY and enthusiasm is more important than having people who can hit all the right notes.
- Don’t feel like songs have to be down-tempo to be holy. Fight the temptation to end every song in a holy whisper. We need more celebration on the weekends! It will actually help your pastor if the last song the congregation sings before the pastor speaks is up-tempo most of the time!
- be more transparent. tell stories on yourself that have nothing to do with God. People will be drawn to your leadership if they know you are human.
- Don’t just dress to impress the other artists you lead with. MOST people we lead are not artists. They are professionals. I wear jeans a lot of the time when I teach, but I still try to dress SHARP.
- Support your pastor publicly and privately. Public loyalty will give you private leverage to bring about change alongside your pastor.
- Demand to spend time with your pastor every week to plan out the services and do some life together. If you ask for it adimately enough, he will do it. Squeaky wheel gets the oil.
- Decide that you are going to plant your life somewhere and allow God to use you there for the rest of your life. The grass will always be greener on the other side of the fence. However, Pastors with the longest tenures make the most Kingdom difference. Proven fact. If nothing else, your family needs a church family!
- Believe in the power of the local church. Invest your life into the local church FIRST, and then, as God uses you to build a dream team around you and replace yourself, when God gives you the opportunity to travel, your Pastor will have no problem with it.
- Love God. Love people. Can’t go wrong with that plan.
- The church would not be complete without you fulfilling your function in the Body! You are valuable to the Kingdom! Thanks for using your gifts in the church!
GREAT STUFF – Thanks Shawn
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