I challenge you to model worship tomorrow.

Evaluation is the key to consistently growing. In order to improve, you have to know where you are, where you want to be, and how you are going to get there. This is true on a personal level and even more necessary when it comes to improving as a team. The more people that are involved in the process, the more difficult it is to improve. When it's just you who needs to improve, you can come up with ways to improve your skill. But when a team is involved, there are a ton of other variables that factor into your ability to improve.

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It's okay to have fun with your team. It doesn't have to be all work. It's easy to get caught in a routine of just running through songs, maybe doing a quick devotional, and heading home. But, some of the best and most important moments with your team are those moments that happen outside of your normal rehearsal time. These are the moments where you truly get to know each other and these get togethers can take your team to a whole new level as they build deeper relationships.

The hardest conversation a worship leader can have isn't saying no to someone when they want to join the team. The hardest conversation is when someone is already on the team and has to be removed. Maybe you've inherited a problem person. Maybe in a moment of weakness you let someone on the team who wasn't quite ready yet. So what can you do?

Here's the truth: What you do in private comes out in public. Those private disciplines you've built over the years slowly but surely creep into your public life. That can be either scary or exhilarating. You may be able to fake it and do all the things that you're supposed to do for a while, but eventually the true you comes out.

Do you ever feel like you're overwhelmed with the amount of responsibility that you have at church? From creating slides to leading rehearsal to picking songs for the week to developing your team to leading worship. The list goes on and on but what if there was a better way? What if you didn't have to do it all? In fact, what if the better way for the church to function was for you to do half of the things that you're doing right now?

I challenge you to create a system.

It can be difficult to find the balance between leading worship and personally worshiping during worship gatherings. If you focus too much on the logistics of leading worship, you can miss out on the personal connection with God. If you focus too much on personally worshiping, you aren't fulfilling your responsibility of being a worship LEADER. What if you could do both at the same time?

In recent online conversations about preparation, more than a few people have expressed how they simply plan the bare minimum because they want to allow the Spirit to move when they lead worship. They might pick songs out but they let the Holy Spirit lead them in the moment.

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There are two types of worship musicians that many have conflated. Those two roles are worship ARTIST and worship PASTOR.

Keep in mind, it isn't wrong to fulfill either of these roles. God has called some to be worship artists and some to be worship pastors (and even some to be both). The problem comes when both of these roles try to fulfill each other's purpose.

There is a fine balance in worship leading that every leader has to deal with: How much do I focus on my own personal worship and how much do I focus on leading? Focusing too much on your own personal worship means that you aren't leading because you're focused on your connection between yourself and God. Focusing too much on leading means that you don't engage with God during worship on a personal level. Personal worship is how you model what worship looks like to your congregation.

Most worship leaders are creatives. We have that spark of creativity inside of us and we thrive on creating. The problem is that a lot of us are tasked with creating on a regular schedule. Sunday is over and you have to prepare for next Sunday and so on and so forth into eternity.

Have you ever had one of those moments where you're leading worship and it's time to say something? So you find yourself with words flowing out of your mouth but you're not even sure what you're communicating. That is called rambling. Rambling is when you fill dead air with unnecessary words. It's talking just to fill space or because you don't know how to end your thoughts.

I challenge you to review your gathering after it's over tomorrow.

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Have you ever been lost when it comes to worship rehearsal? Maybe it just feel monotonous - like you're doing the same thing over and over again? For some of us, rehearsal just involves running through the set for Sunday and going home.

Systems are essential to your worship team running smoothly. They create consistency in your worship ministry. People can anticipate what is going to happen instead of guessing. Systems also create boundaries - they let people know how things work and they limit your options (in a good way) allowing your decision making to be streamlined.