Worship Podcast
[This post is part of a series on Leading Your Team & Congregation Through Worship Tensions. Check out the rest here.]
What do you do when you are faced with a room of passionate Christians AND clueless unbelievers?
Worship Leader, how do you manage this tension?
I believe the answer to this question is one of the most important facets of a worship leader’s ministry.
[This post is part of a series on Leading Your Team & Congregation Through Worship Tensions. Check out the rest here.]
[This guest post is by Chris Vacher of chrisfromcanada.com]
If you’ve served in worship ministry for longer than one Sunday, you’ll recognize that tension is part of the game.
David has done a great job of outlining some of these tensions and giving a really healthy perspective in this series. For some of you, these tensions will not apply. For others of you, you are feeling like the focus of your role is about making sure some of these tensions don’t become disagreements.
The last thing you probably want is to be a fake worship leader.
But it’s easy to do. Sin lurks right around the corner. Your flesh longs for adoration. It gets easier to have a form of worship leading but denying true worship.
So, if you want to be a fake worship leader print off this list and hang it on your wall.
Or better yet, avoid it like the your life depends on it:
The more you do something, the more familiar it becomes.
The more familiar something becomes, the less you think about it.
The less you think about it, the easier it is to fake it.
To be honest, I feel like a fake more often than not.
[This post is part of a series on Leading Your Team & Congregation Through Worship Tensions. Check out the rest here.]
We’ve all been in the situation once or twice. Actually you may be stuck there right now.
You have a passion for Jesus. You long for your congregation to experience God. You want the glory of God to fill your church.
But your band doesn’t look like they agree.
Actually, they look depressed, exhausted, and barely awake. They can seem to talk for passionate hours on gear and new music, but when it comes time to showing some enthusiasm for worship, all you get is silence.
Blank stares.
Is it possible to have excellent musicians who worship with passion?