Strong worship leaders develop good attitudes and habits. They keep their heart, mind and spirit right before God and man. God is the reason for worship. He is the source of your success. Spending daily time with God , reading the word and in prayer, is the main key to being a strong praise and worship leader. If your congregation is not singing, you are not doing what you are called to do. Are you picking songs the congregation can learn quickly?
Are you repeating the songs enough for your congregation to learn them? Are you picking great songs? Is your congregation just singing or are they worshiping with the songs? Are you putting them in singable keys? The Holy Spirit will bring songs to your mind that you might ordinarily miss. How does God want to be worshiped this Sunday? We typically have several teams of people to lead, like the music team, choir, tech team, and possibly even ushers.
When there are groups of people who rely on you to get their job done, you need to be as organized as possible. This means having some sort of clear schedule for your volunteers.
It means having a recruiting and training process for new tech team members. Or developing an audition process and some paperwork that explains expectations for new team members. All these things take work, intentionality, effort and even experimentation. But the most effective worship leaders always have administrative structures in place that help support and bring health to their ministry. The most effective worship leaders always have administrative structures in place that help support and bring health to their ministry.
In a similar vein, strong worship leaders have solid communication skills. They know how to send group emails that are clear, well formatted, easy to read, and have all the necessary information for their teams.
They hold quarterly meetings with their teams to communicate any upcoming changes or keep the vision front and center. They handle difficult conversations with grace, truth and love. Great worship leaders are great communicators. Finally, great worship leaders are skilled musicians. If you sense the congregation needs to sing a chorus or a bridge again, you should be able to easily navigate your hands to the right place on your fretboard, so-as to not distract your congregation with a bad note.
You should have the skill and strength in your vocals to be able to properly convey they emotion of a moment. You should play enough of each instrument to be able to convey to a band member what you are wanting them to play.
Musical ability is vital to our role as a worship leader, so we should seek to be as effective as we can with our instruments. How is your timing? How versatile are you on your instrument? How is your pitch? Put in the time practicing so-as to not be a distraction to your congregation. Whether with our sound tech or our senior pastor, we should seek to be easy to work with.
We should be reliable, helpful, positive, encouraging, quick to take orders and faithful to follow through. So, those are the seven well, eight key characteristics we think you need to be a highly effective worship leader.
Alex Enfiedjian is a worship leader, songwriter, producer, author and podcaster. He founded Worship Ministry Training to pursue his passion of helping worship leaders excel in their craft and calling! Alex is married to his lovely wife Liliya and together they have two little girls.
Follow him on Twitter alexonhe. I agree with your whole list, Alex, but there is one missing. They need to understand a bit about Philosophy. Theology Literature and Art as well. Worship is a heard, head, hand, gut thing—we worship God with all we are. Our culture really emphasizes emotions these days, the last century was the mind. We need a little symbolism and we need to be more thoughtful of the liturgies we all have them. Thanks for the article! Thanks Trent! Yes, it is a lot! God help us!
Thank you brother! This is an Awesome teaching the part where you talk about Pride and fighting that. I find myself fighting that issue on a weekly basic. Its rear that I get any feed back from the people but I understand blessing the people so that they will turn around and Bless The Lord. My God grow you all the more in your gift and speak that the spirit of the spirit of the Psalmist will over take you like never before.
I especially love the examples. I struggle with what to say during worship a lot. I have been spending more time in the word, so that I let it speak for me. I will spend more time with planning not just the worship set but also with verses and speaking points in between. Thank you so much. May God continue to use you all and bless you all. Spread Worship October 8, am. Jude October 20, pm.
Bree Ward February 20, am. I agree with you when you advise to plan ahead and visualize the moment when leading praise and worship so that you would know what to say. My sister wants to be a youth leader, and she always has this anxiety in speaking in public.
This is a great tip. I will let her know to prepare in advance and to anticipate things that can possibly happen during the event to avoid mistakes.
Lic April 18, am. Venus May 5, am. Adesina Oluwabusola Helen June 7, am. Though I have put some of these steps to use already. Ruth August 13, am. I am really blessed by this piece, it will greatly improve my worship ability. I will need More of this. Ron Booker August 22, pm. I like that you said that when leading a worship service you need to feel the moment on where to talk to the people. My wife and I started assisting at a church and we want to be ready for anything.
Thank you for helping us learn how to maintain your nervousness away. Spread Worship August 23, am. Spread Worship December 26, am. Edmore March 8, am. Loveth August 5, pm. Thank you Sir,taking praise for the first time today and have learnt a lot,I know with this teachings and with the help of the Holy spirit, I will do well. Moses Esther Favour August 24, pm. Keziah September 8, pm. Noble Zoe October 7, am. This has really done a help here to me thanks for this tips God enlarge the depth of your understanding about music.
KennyRoy October 21, pm. Damalie February 8, pm. Reginald Rose II April 7, am. Janice April 17, pm. I find these tips very useful.
Thank you for sharing. I mostly use scriptures prior to the start of the session. Anna Liza Lim May 29, pm. Your email address will not be published. Skip to content Menu. Spread Worship Featured , leading worship , tips guide Tweet. What to say when leading praise and worship—7 tips to get better at using words 1.
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