Worship Leading And Management Of The Team

Worship Leading is a far more complicated role than most worship leaders realize! They start off thinking that all they have to do is sing and the rest will follow, but over the years I have been taught many things about worship leading and managing my musicians and singers. In creating and working with different worship teams I have made made hundreds of mistakes, most if which I don't need you to make when you are Worship Leading . I want to share with you a couple of things I've been taught, in the hope that you'll be in a position to duck these tiny bumps along your own journey.

We must recollect the members of the worship groups are volunteers. I know there are some churches that have paid musicians and vocalists but ninety percent of us have volunteers. In that we must not forget that while we must have a set of basic rules of our teams, we must not be hard set in our worship leading policies. If your rules are too strict and or they are too controlling you will have difficulty keeping volunteers. This is a mistake that I made early on and soon found out terribly quickly that a volunteers heart is to serve not be proscribed by a bunch of rules. As I recall scripture has things to say about rules that are too strict. Can we going to act like Pharisees, or are we going to step up and act like true worship leaders!

The best leaders lead by motivation, not by orders and rules. If you want the best from your team, become a worship leader of the highest order, and inspire the allegiance and devotion of those you lead in your Worship Leading ministry.

Another aspect to recollect is that we must be open to changing to the needs of the team. For instance, say your drummer just got a new job. He wants to be on the team but his classes happen to be on the booked walk Thur nights. He knows that he must rehearse to be on the team. The point is this is a Worship Leading ministry. Conform to the requirements of the people as long as it will not hinder or affect the team in a negative way.

And you have new songs you wish to work on. But ensure you have fun too. Occasionally the team just needs to fellowship awhile with one another before you rehearse. Occasionally you simply need to jam together on a good chord progression. As an important point I suspect these jam sessions make the musicians tighter.

Again this is first and foremost a Worship Leading ministry. We must never forget that. Folks must come before music. Get together for more than just rehearsals and the service. Don't simply rehearse and serve together, play together. Go on barbecues. Have a game night or go out together. Simply put, have fun together away from the band setting. Fellowship together. This is a superb way to get to know one another and to build relationships.

Remember, all work and no play will make the volunteers stay away.

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