We desire to see the church experience a genuine connection with God during the musical segment of the service.  We will rehearse with the team, spend time in prayer, and try to avoid disruptions. It's called flow.

It is important for us to understand just what abilities, gifts, and skills are in terms of the worship ministry.  It's more than semantics.  There are differences between these words although we frequently hear them interchanged.

Exodus 15:1-21 is an interesting study on a congregational worship event ... If we break the thoughts down into separate "songs", we discover a very logical and effective song set.

Rehearsals can be a great time of growth in skills and abilities, but they can also be times of frustration.  Most worship bands have a wide variety of skill levels in their musicians and singers.  The wise band leader/worship will recognize this fact and have a strategy to deal with it.  The following are some tips to unify the team under the pressures and grow in strength as a team.

There is only one necessary thing in a believer's life, according to Jesus. 

Skill in leading worship includes how well we begin. Once into a set of songs, worship leaders hit a stride. Most of the time confidence will heighten after a song or two but how does one start strong?

As the worship leader, we have a great opportunity to bring life to any situation. We do so by reflecting the image of Jesus through loving and affirming words.  

Our charisma and/or talent is not enough.

It's no surprise to anyone that songs have direction to them. Some songs are vertical, meaning that God is addressed as “you”. There are also songs that are horizontal songs that may speak about God as “he” but are directed to another. The apostle Paul told the Colossians to “sing to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” (Colossians 3:16)As worship leaders, we do well to notice the difference between these songs.

Many years ago, I came up with a charting system of key signatures and their corresponding accidentals to assist musicians.  It was a way to understand how to treat notes in certain keys. Take a look at the attached charts and see if you could benefit from them.