Leadership Lessons in Worship

When you are leading teams of people, there are a few things that you should purpose to do-these apply to worship teams too!

1. Celebrate together-share the successes. The worship wasn't amazing because you were the leader. It was effective because the Spirit used a group of people together in unity to bring God much glory. When you hear affirmation, think team.

2. If you want to bring in new people, surround them with team veterans. This builds relationships, accountability and community. Each time I lead worship, regardless of the setting, I try my best to find an opportunity to bring someone along with me in order to let them grow. It could be a younger musician, or someone new to your team. Purpose to practice an open community-allow your team to grow through new people coming on alongside veterans.

3. You will fail. How often and how badly is up to you. Preparation, prayer, integrity, attitude-all these play a part in your leadership, but you will still mess up. Maybe it's a wrong chord, a pitchy note, or a forgotten lyric. Or maybe it's worse.
Make sure you are prepared and prayed up as a leader. It took me a while to realize that mistakes are always going to happen-it's how you handle the mistakes that reveals your leadership. The greatest NFL players still turn the ball over-maybe not as often as the benchwarmers, but they still make mistakes. The greatest hitter in the history of baseball only got on base safely 4 out of 10 times. If these world class athletes make mistakes with millions of people watching, what makes us think we'd be any different? The question is: How will you handle the mistakes and the failures?

It takes purpose, planning and prayer to lead your team. Continue to chase after these leadership principles, and watch God move among you!

-Andrew