341- Evaluating Your Worship Team

Evaluating your worship team, like your own ministry, is definitely a beneficial thing!

What Does Evaluating Your Worship team Offer?

When you evaluate your worship team, you are taking the first step towards greatness, but you may find that certain individuals are resistant to this. Let's face it, many people in your worship team will be resistant examine door, either thinking themselves above all of this, threatened that they will not meet your standards. However, when evaluating your worship team need to assure them that this is not a way of controlling or criticising, but a way of helping you as a team minister more effectively for the Lord. Just as you evaluate your own ministry, closely examining the way your team operates when you are worship leading can give you insights into ways in which they can improve. And you cannot only examine them as a team, that you can examine the individual lives represented by the worship team members, and have a positive impact in their lives pointing them back to the Lord, and restoring relationships you may have grown cold over time. Your team members may offer up all kinds of spiritual reasons why you should not evaluate them, but if you want your worship team to improve, you simply cannot adequately improve that which you cannot assess! A great time to re-evaluate how your team is ministering is at the end of the year, and that's why we have done this podcast now. This is an excellent time to take the time to be evaluating your worship team, not with a view from criticising or being antagonistic, but with a view of improving their ministry and their personal walk with God in a variety of areas. This is an important podcast that every worship leader should listen to, because we all want to improve at what we're doing whether we are newbies or whether we are in top-level worship leading. Grab a coffee settle back and listen to this week's worship leader podcast…

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/341-evaluating-your-worship-team/

339- Leading Worship for a Guest Speaker

Leading worship is an important task at any time, and especially if you have a guest speaker in your church service. A Guest Speaker Presents a Unique Challenge Having been the guest many times as visiting ministry, in many denominations and nations around the world, I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly...

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https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/339-leading-worship-for-a-guest-speaker/

339- Leading Worship for a Guest Speaker

Leading worship is an important task at any time, and especially if you have a guest speaker in your church service.

A Guest Speaker Presents a Unique Challenge

Having been the guest many times as visiting ministry, in many denominations and nations around the world, I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly among worship leaders. As a visiting ministry, I have been in churches where the worship team leader has come to me and asked what they can do to serve my ministry.  I have also seen worship teams so intent on their own portion of the service that they refuse to let the visiting ministry even soundcheck until the service is starting. In the end, for both the visiting ministry and the worship team, we need to never lose sight of the fact that we are called to serve.  To serve the Lord, yes, and also to serve each other. And leading worship for someone whose ministry style you are unfamiliar with is always a challenge.  This is especially true for evangelists, most of whom have a particular style of music and a way they want it to be played, especially for the appeal.  If you stop and think that the invitation could be crucial in eternity for many people, then the importance of getting your service for the visiting ministry right is paramount. So worship leaders, even if you do not have guest speakers in your church often, you still need to listen to this podcast.  The importance of what we do cannot be understated, because the atmosphere for the guest can really stand or fall based on how we serve and minister. Our job as worship leaders is to prepare the atmosphere for the visiting minister, then go with him as he shares so that the music and atmosphere of worship add to what he or she is trying to achieve, rather than detracting from it! This pod is designed to help worship leaders everywhere for those special and sometimes challenging occasions where you need to provide worship in and around a guest speaker...

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/339-leading-worship-for-a-guest-speaker/

337- What is Your Leadership Style

Your leadership style is the way you lead your team, and having an awareness of the style in which you lead can help you as you lead the worship team.

Leadership Style Can Affect Everything!

Leadership style can make a world of difference.  It encompasses how you lead, how you inspire your team, and also how you deal with conflict within your team. There are many different styles of leadership and each has advantages and disadvantages when it comes to leading a team.  Some styles are controlling, some are more empowering for your team, but even this style comes with risks. as a leader, you need to discover your style, and then apply the strengths of your leadership style to bring the best out of your team. So do you inspire your team?  Do you control them to pursue an excellent result? Or do you empower your team to take the lead and inspire others to greatness?  Remember, being a worship leader is not about singing, it is not about playing well, or even about arranging music...  Being a worship leader is about leading your team in a way that inspires and challenges them. In the end, it is all about leadership style! All worship leaders want to make a difference.  All of you reading this want to become great leaders, but frequently excelling in leadership takes courage to inspire, and also allow your team members to make mistakes and grow in their musical gifting. Having the right leadership style for your specific situation can make an enormous difference in your ministry, so listen to this podcast and learn how to lead your team more effectively.  Remember, leadership is not just something you are born to, not something you are trained in, it is something that you can learn and grow into.  Yes, you can learn how to lead your worship team in a more inspiring and influential way, and this pod will help you understand your style and how you can bring the  =best out in and through your ministry...

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/337-what-is-your-leadership-style/

336- Keeping your Worship Team Inspired and Fired Up!

Keeping your worship team inspired is important at any time, but it becomes even more important as the year rolls on and people become tired and more and more over-committed. So we thought we would put together a special pod to inspire those of you who lead worship teams to keep the team fired up and inspired.

Why is Keeping Your Worship Team Inspired Important?

Every creative person wants to be inspired.  The trouble is that, as the year draws to a close, it is often hard to keep spirits, commitment and excitement up.  People get tired, they get run down, they get distracted and often things like family commitments and work seem to overshadow anything we do in the music team! The great news is that with a little effort you can keep your worship team inspired, fired up and totally committed to the ministry. Simple things can make all the difference as you battle the burnout and bring out the best of your team, both as individuals and together!  Whether it is changing your rehearsals, scheduling social time together or concentrating on sharing your walk with the Lord, there are so many ways you can keep people inspired. And let's face it, who doesn't need to be inspired?  And who doesn't grind down over time? We live in such a busy and crazy world, and every member of your worship team is pulled and dragged all over the place by commitments, relationships, work, business, school and everything else.  It seems almost impossible to remain inspired, but certainly, you can if you do the right things! So settle back and enjoy Darin and Erick as they share their thoughts on how you can keep your worship team inspired and fired up!  A few minor changes and you can set your team up to reach new heights in worship and worship leading over the next year!

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/336-worship-team-inspired/

335- Spiritual Accountability

Accountability is a huge part of being in a team, and even when you are the worship leader, accountability is essential.

Accountability Improves your Ability

Worship leaders need to be accountable to their pastors, their oversight and even their team members. When you move into a leadership position, submission to those who are directing you is a very important part of your leadership. Many people want to have the top job... they want to control their own decisions and be the master of their own destiny. However, even the guys at the top need to be accountable. Open your Bible and you will see accountability all the way through.  From David to Nehemiah, from Peter to Paul, successful leaders are accountable!  Unsuccessful leaders, people like King Saul and Samson, often had a real issue with accountability, so there is a lesson in there for all of us! In this pod, we discuss who you should be accountable to and why.  the guys share their own stories and reveal some of the horror stories they have built over many years regarding the inability to be accountable to those in authority over them. We also reveal that the best way to grow your ministry is to be accountable to someone else.  In fact, the best way to grow your ministry is to make yourself a servant to someone else's ministry.  The more you serve them, amazingly the Lord opens up and starts to increase your ministry!  After all, Psalm 127:1 (ESV) Unless the Lord builds the house,     those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city,     the watchman stays awake in vain. So don't try and build your ministry in vain!  As you make yourself accountable, God will build something supernatural and awesome.  Just serve, be accountable and watch Him do what He wants to do in your life and ministry! Finally, worship leaders, do not be frightened by accountability, but step up and submit to your oversight. It will serve you well, increase your effectiveness in ministry and make life a whole lot sweeter as you serve the Lord!

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/335-spiritual-accountability/

333- How to Deliver Criticism and Survive!

Learning how to deliver criticism in a constructive and encouraging way is always a difficult task, especially if you are not someone who enjoys conflict!

Learning How to Deliver Criticism can Make or Break You!

However, if you are to be a leader in worship, you need to deliver criticism at times, so it is worthwhile discovering the best and least explosive way of doing this. How many of you have discovered that musicians and singers are very sensitive to even minor points of correction or criticism? Yes, we are all often very sensitive to this, and this means that learning how to deliver criticism in the right way become an extremely important aspect of leadership within a worship team. Get this wrong and you create a whirlwind of rebellion and tension within the worship team. Get this right, and you can actually create an ally within the team, and also build encouragement and healthy relationships between team members. So it makes sense to learn how to deliver criticism in a way that builds your team and relationships rather than destroys them!  The guys share their own experiences, both being the leader and delivering the critique and also being the one criticised, so you will get a good look at both sided of the coin in this exciting podcast. They also discuss their preferred method of sharing criticism, a method that St Paul used and which is so powerful, the recipient actually walks away encouraged and build up rather than discouraged or even destroyed by the time you spend together.  Trust me worship leaders, this information is gold to those who want to lead a happy and successful worship team! So join Darin and Erick for a very frank discussion of how to deliver criticism in a godly, constructive and honourable way...

https://praiseandworshipleader.com/worship-leader-podcast/333-how-to-deliver-criticism-and-survive/