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“Developing Skills in Leading Worship” (Show #134) | 8-22-17

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Leadership Development

As a worship leader, do you sometimes struggle with falling into a rut? You have been doing this for a while now, and everything is going along well, but week after week, the process gets to be the same, and almost too easy?

No matter how long you have been leading worship, we should never stop learning. Whether you are a brand new worship leader just starting out, or you are a seasoned professional, there is always room to grow.

Learn the four key areas of worship leadership where we need to develop our skills, and take our ministry to the next level.


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Four Key Areas

Leading people in worship to the Living God is an awesome privilege and really involves four major areas: music, worship, leadership (people) and your relationship with God. The more you understand and grow in each area, the stronger your worship leading should become.  


Develop Your Music Skills

  • Take music lessons on piano and/or guitar
  • Become a lifelong student of musical skills and styles
  • Learn to sing at a good level
  • Take music theory courses
  • Learn to sing vocal harmonies
  • Learn to memorize music
  • Learn to play-by-ear, improvise with chord charts and read notes
  • Develop a good sense of time and rhythm
  • Learn to write your own songs
  • Learn to write your own charts


 [ctt template=”6″ link=”7Pl1I” via=”no” ]Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. (Psalm 33:3 ESV)[/ctt]

Develop Your Worship Skills

  • Worship in private
  • Study worship in the Bible
  • Understand the progression of worship (Psalm 100)
  • Study under a strong worship leader
  • Serve faithfully on a worship team
  • Watch great teams online
  • Read great books on worship
  • Develop strong stage presence
  • Learn to pick great worship songs
  • Be a lifelong student of worship


[ctt template=”6″ link=”7Pl1I” via=”no” ] Be a lifelong student of worship[/ctt]  

Develop Your Leadership Skills

  • Love people – John 13:34
  • Learn the importance of serving – Matthew 20:28
  • Leadership begins at home. Are you leading yourself and your home well?
  • Be faithful with whatever opportunities (small or large) that God opens up.
  • Learn good administration skills
  • Learn to run great rehearsals
  • Develop your own strong team (Worship band and vocals)
  • Learn to communicate in front of an audience
  • Learn how to be a constructive member of a pastoral team
  • Develop a good relationship with your Pastor
  • Mentor future leaders and grow your worship team
  • Read leadership books
  • Study other leaders and be a lifelong student of leadership styles

 

 Develop your relationship with God

  • Read the Bible daily
  • Pray daily – Luke 5:16
  • Listen to what God is saying to you – John 12:49
  • Listen to what God is saying to the church
  • Do what God is telling you to do – John 5:19
  • Learn to trust Him more daily
  • Keep your heart soft and pliable before God – Revelation 2:4
  • Learn from other great men and women of God
  • Learn to love the church like Jesus loves the church


Recap

These four key areas of worship ministry are foundational to leading well. Use these checklists to get started developing your skills in each area. Developing your music skills, worship skills, leadership skills and your relationship with God will put you in a great position to lead your team well.  

Mark Cole lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and loves hanging with his wife & family, leading worship, mentoring musicians, consulting for churches, playing tennis & squash, riding his mountain and road bikes, writing music, teaching and working on his blog: ‘Following God: The Grand Adventure’. Mark is currently on staff at Living Stones Church.

Mark has spent over 30 years as a Worship Pastor in some of the largest churches in Canada and is also the founding musical arranger of PraiseCharts.com, a ministry supplying worship charts and orchestrations for thousands of churches around the world. Mark has also spent 10 years travelling around the world to over 60 countries leading worship in outreach situations, doing church consulting, teaching seminars and directing bands with many different ministries.

@MarkMCole @BranonDempsey @worshiptt @WorshipTTU

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