Here are five aspects of the life of a worship leader on a day-to-day basis:

1. Discipleship – self, others, team, church, prayer, scripture

2. Communication – with pastors and staff, team, tech ministry, and volunteers

3. Music – planning, finding, charting, files, creativity

4. Organizing – rehearsals, staging, teams, flow, Sundays

5. Recruiting – praying for new people, raising up the next generation, discovering volunteers

It's great to learn from other churches, to be inspired by bigger and better, but what about the smaller settings? What if you are leading in a smaller church? What if your stage area is more traditional, without grand lighting or state of the art tech?

You may not have a huge budget, a large talent pool, incredible production, but Jesus is still the ultimate worship leader, the Holy Spirit is still present and you have these three advantages:

1. Relationally Driven

2. Less Commotion

3. Opportunities for Involvement

Now is a great time to start thinking about the summer. You can use it to your advantage to strengthen, boost and recharge your ministry worship ministry. Here are some ideas for your life and ministry this summer…

1. Create a social event

2. Plan with your pastor

3. Plan your own ministry

4. Keep the music simple

5. Include others in leadership

6. Music themed Sundays

7. Highlight team members

8. Schedule your home time (and stick to it)

9. Serve at a kids event or outreach

10. Get the big blocks in for the fall

This you can do it all?

You can't, and you shouldn't.

Here are some random thoughts to encourage you, the leader, to invite, ask, and otherwise pull people into serving in ministry with you:

ASKING OTHERS TO SERVE

WHAT DO WE ASK

EXAMPLES OF ASKING

Place your focus on edifying the church, helping the congregation connect with God, and pointing toward Jesus in all you do and sing. As we do this, we will be focused on leading the church in worship. And you know what? Great performance will follow.

To lead is to be a servant. Here are some of the ways we serve from an angle of leading worship:

1. Invite and Involve Others To Develop Their Gifts

2. Care For Your Volunteer Team

3. Do The Hard Work Of Organizing

4. Humbly Assist And Partner With Your Pastor

5. Pray For Your Church

6. Sing The Songs That Connect With and Help The Congregation Engage

7. Stretch And Challenge Your People To Grow

The question is for a great worship flow is, "What's Next?"

Today we talk about how to instill this question:

1. Write out the order with details

2. Teach them to ask the question

3. Remind them to ask the question

In this episode we want to help you teach why it’s important for your church to learn to worship. Adding some training to the worship flow will open the doors to your congregation responding in new ways. 

We're using some wisdom from Psalm 66:

1. Shout Joyful Praises To God

2. Sing About The Glory Of His Name

3. Say To God...

4. Come And See, Come And Listen...

5. Praise Our God, Everyone!

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Part of the role of the worship leader is to help develop the church to grow in their ministry skills! Each of these ideas will help you as the leader equip others to grow in their own skill as leaders of worship:

1. Increase Expectation

2. Provide Resources

3. Plan In Advance

4. Instill Encouragement As A Culture

5. Generate Inspiration

6. Include Guests In Worship

7. Model Growth In Skill

In this episode we'll be discussing ten simple tools we use for worship leading each weekend:

1. Guitar

2. Capo and Tuner

3. Bible

4. Phone

5. Planning Center

6. "Slack" software

7. Pro-Presenter

8. Songselect (CCLI)

9. iPad

10. Ableton

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Sharing dreams and visions with your worship team is important, and here are some benefits:

1. Builds A Culture Of Vision

2. Allows Other People To Add Their Gifts

3. Helps Uncover Passion In People

4. Helps Draw People To The Team

5. Gives Your Team And Leaders Hope

6. Helps You Stop Doing So Much Of The Ministry Yourself

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