open your eyes

3 Steps To Read The Room While Leading Worship

Reading the room is an essential part of leading worship well. If you want to truly lead people, in all areas of life - not just worship leading, you need to know where they are at and lead accordingly. However, far too often in our worship leading, we say "Follow me!", run towards the destination, but never take a look back to see if the people we're leading are still behind us…

3 Ways To Keep Your Eyes Open While Leading Worship

Think about the last time you led worship: what amount of time were your eyes closed and what amount of time were your eyes open?

For most worship leaders, that ratio is 75% closed to 25% open. But, what would happen if you flipped that ratio? What if you were able to keep your eyes open 75% of the time and closed only 25% of the time? This one small change can have a huge impact on how you lead worship…

3 Things That Happen When You Don't Open Your Eyes While Leading Worship

For most leaders, especially when they're just starting out, their eyes are closed 75% of the time and only opened 25% of the time. Leading with your eyes closed is probably your default. But, there are a ton of advantages to keeping your eyes open when leading - we've covered these at length in multiple posts.

Since we've already covered some positive reasons to keep your eyes open, let's look at some negative things that happen when you don't keep your eyes open…