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Going From Good To Excellent
#BeExcellent
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Good or Excellent?
As worship leaders, teams and volunteers, how do we go from good to excellent? It is easy to settle into a routine with rehearsals, vocal performance, tightness of the band, and the list goes on.How do you not just settle, but thrive and become and do things with excellence for God’s glory? Here are four main areas that teams can work on…
1. Love the Lord… …with all our heart, soul and mind. Loving God with all our hearts must be at the center of all we do. Here are two of the main ways a team can grow in this area.
a) Reading God’s Word daily: God’s Word has the power to change and transform lives. Hopefully every worship leader and worship can testify to that truth based on what God has done in their life. Worshipers need to read the Bible on a daily basis, and it needs to be an important daily habit in your life.
b) Praying daily: Jesus spent daily time in prayer. Praying and spending time with God needs to be one of our top priorities. Only God, working though us, can change the hearts and minds of the people we minister to. Excellence begins with Jesus beginning in you.
2. Loving one another
Jesus said, “Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. (John 13:35)” Two of the main ways we do this are:
a) Serving one another: Jesus said it this way: “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them. But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give His life as a ransom for many. (Matthew 20:25-28)” Two of the main ways we show our love is by serving each other and laying down our lives for each other.
b) We are kind to one another: We should endeavour to have God’s Spirit working through us in all our actions. The fruits of God’s Spirit are: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness and faithfulness (Galatians 5:22). None of us get it right all the time. But our heart should be to love our fellow believer and be forgiving, just as Christ has forgiven us.
3. Grow as passionate worshippers of God
Two of the main ways we do this are through are attitudes and actions:
a) Attitude is everything: We need to check our hearts and spirits and come to worship God with great attitudes: The Biblical attitudes of worship are: thankfulness, honesty, reverence, faith, humility, joy and with our whole heart. If we come with those attitudes, God is pleased and something powerful happens in our worship time.
b) Actions speak louder than words: People will believe your actions before they believe your words or the lyrics of the song you sing. I believe we should use the Biblical actions as our standard for worship: Throughout the Bible, the people of God have worshiped Him through singing, playing instruments, lifting of hands, clapping, shouting, dancing, bowing down, standing and giving (their whole lives). Let us never be content to do things the way we have always done them. Let us raise our worship to the standard of God’s Word.
4. Work on becoming excellent singers and musicians
There are four main ways that we can do that:
a) We work hard: Becoming excellent at anything takes hard work. If you are not willing to become disciplined and put in the time and energy, you will not improve.
b) We are faithful: Teams only improve by consistently working together. We need faithful people who will go the 2nd mile to be on time and be faithful to their responsibilities.
c) We accept correction: We can all improve and we all have blind spots. Each of us needs people and leaders who can challenge us and speak the truth in love.
d) We keep learning and growing: None of us have arrived. There are always new things to learn and areas to improve. If you are not growing, you are growing stale. We all need to be pushed beyond our comfort zones to new levels of excellence.
#GoodToExcellent
“Being excellent is doing what is good.” – @BranonDempsey
What area is God speaking to you about? Where do you need to move from good to excellent as an individual and as a team? May we never be satisfied with just going through the motions. May we always be passionate worshipers and lovers of God.
@MarkMCole @BranonDempsey @WorshipTT
Mark Cole, along with Branon Dempsey is one of our Worship Team Training Mentors. Explore what God can do through you, as we can help equip you for the upward calling in your leadership development through our Ministry Mentoring Program. Copyright 2016 Worship Team Training®
