50 Worship Leading Tips Rookies Should Learn and Veterans Should Relearn

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  • Learn more people’s names than new songs.
  • Take a Sabbath every week.
  • Make deposits in younger leaders and withdrawals from older leaders.
  • Pray for and defend your pastor even when he doesn’t deserve it.
  • Leave more things at the office when you go home.
  • Ask how it might impact your family before asking how it might impact your job.
  • Learn more theology than musicology.
  • Welcome divine interruptions in your routine.
  • Surround yourself with those to protect you from your own stupidity.
  • Place more focus on people than projects.
  • Stay longer.
  • Celebrate the Lord’s Supper more often.
  • Begin all worship planning with Scripture and Prayer instead of songs titles.
  • Drink more coffee with senior adults and students.
  • The original song key may not be the best key for congregational singing.
  • Practice leadership as much as you practice your guitar.
  • Cast vision for the future without denigrating the past.
  • Not all thoughts that enter your mind have to exit your mouth.
  • Don’t feel threatened when someone else gets the credit.
  • Affirm volunteers in public, correct them in private and pastor them in both places.
  • Don’t randomly blow things up without considering where the pieces might land.
  • Help grandparents and grandchildren worship together.
  • If you don’t guard yourself spiritually, emotionally and physically no one else will.
  • Public worship will never succeed without private worship.
  • Understand the difference between knowing you can and deciding you should.
  • Never stop being a student.
  • Always err on the side of grace.
  • Build bridges from the platform to the pews.
  • Turn house lights up and volume down occasionally to see if they are even singing.
  • Don’t determine the worship language of your congregation based on how you might appear to other worship leaders.
  • You’ll always sing too many or too few hymns or modern worship songs for someone.
  • Filter songs theologically before musically.
  • Wake up every morning feeling unqualified in your own power to do what God has called you to do.
  • Keep your focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were.
  • Spend as much time on relationships as you spend on ministry job placement sites.
  • Not all staff problems originate in someone else’s office.
  • There are lots of other churches but you only have one family.
  • Your attitude may be the only change necessary.
  • Scripted, explainable and rational aren’t always worship prerequisites.
  • If you try to succeed alone you’ll also fail alone.
  • Setting boundaries ahead of time gives you the resolve to say no.
  • What you once learned is not enough to sustain your entire ministry.
  • The worship service you prepared may not be the most important worship that occurs this week.
  • Just changing the music won’t grow or kill your church.
  • Not every worship song is appropriate for congregational singing.
  • Leading music doesn’t necessarily mean you are leading people.
  • Worship even when you aren’t the leader.
  • Your musical talent may help you secure a position but leadership and relationships will help you keep it.
  • Don’t lead worship just because you don’t know how to do anything else.
  • If you’re saving your best for where God might call you next, why would He want to?
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