Worship Leader Wednesday is a series where we give you quick tips that you can put into practice today to become a better worship leader
Today we tackle a difficult subject: how to remove or release someone from your worship team. As a worship leader, this may be the most difficult thing you have to do, but there are times when a team member needs to be removed (for various reasons). This is a guide how to navigate that.
One point we made in the video is the importance of setting up clearly defined values and vision for your team. In the free PDF Document below, we’ve provided you the values and vision we have set up for the worship teams at our church. Please feel free to use this document as a starting point if you’d like to establish vision for your team.
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In This Episode, Brian and Fuller Talk About How to Plan Your Set Lists. We Will Discuss Song Selection, Transitions, & More.
The cost of raising up leaders
Today’s Worship Leader Wednesday episode is really all about humility. One thing all great leaders do is raise up other leaders. At the heart of the Great Commission is the idea of raising others up. As worship leaders, we should be raising up the next generation of worship leaders on our teams.
How to cast vision to your worship team
You hear us talking about vision often here at Worship Tutorials. We believe that vision is vitally important to our ministries, and we even read in the Bible, “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Prov. 29:18).
How to handle the Last Minute Pastor
In this episode of Worship Leader Wednesday, Fuller and Brian talk about how to approach the ‘Last Minute Pastor’. What do you do as a worship leader when your pastor consistently asks you to change songs (or other elements of the music portion of the service) at the last minute?
How do you deal with older people??? In our team we have like 4 older people ( between 50-60 years old) and the rest of us are our 30’s. I as a leader feel like them are not “helping us” grow… they kinda pull us back… and 2 persons in special are always late. The problem is that one of them is the pastor’s dad’ … and he just doesn’t wanna quit…
And us, as worship leaders, we don’t know how to deal with this mater …
Thank you and blessings!
LA, with respect: May I gently suggest that you focus on the *problems* you’re encountering (the perceived lack of growth and lack of punctuality discipline) and ignore the fact that four of your members are “older?” I think their ages are immaterial. For example, if they were always on time and were always at the forefront of suggesting and implementing ways to help you grow, that would alleviate your concerns, right? If not, I think you may have some unaddressed biases against folks you perceive as old. Again, with all the respect and courtesy I can muster, you may need to do some soul-searching in this regard. It’s somewhat troubling that your comment leads off with a question that implies “old” people are problems to be dealt with. I know the written word doesn’t always convey what we mean (my own comments right here probably aren’t coming across as I intend), so your notes may not reflect your actual feelings, but if they do, please meet with your lead pastor or a trusted counselor to determine where your own head is before moving further. Finally, I promise you, 50-60 years of age isn’t old.
Thank you guys this is really good, and honestly, we can use these insights with pretty much any ministry team in the church. Just good, biblical wisdom & human insight, thanks!
This is the best tutorial you have ever shared. Thank you very much.
Thanks so much for the post.Much thanks again. Really Cool.
this is amazing. ive seen some videos get some backlash after you guys talk about hot button topics or issues in the church. DONT EVER STOP! We need this as christ followers and the church needs this. youve blessed this worship leader tremendously. Thank you sirs!
I am involved in an addiction based ministry. How do you deal with someone who wants (again) and previously has been a part of worship but yet, in public they have been caught in not acting in accordance to what the bible calls us to. I mean this by acts of sexuality, negative attitudes towards other band members, ect. Some of which can not be proven. They did not leave on good terms 6 mos. ago and since day one of being back have been gloating about how they will eventually be back up there instead of taking the necessarily time to work on their relationship with Jesus. Also since this individual has returned there has been some dissension felt during time of worship as this person sits front and center, and mocks, and talks during this time. I obviously see some issues but these issues has not been observed by the pastor presiding(who also has authority over worship team) of church, and the pastor is not willing to agree with what a select few have suggested as a alternative to allowing this person to get back up there immediately. I hear alot of “God has immensely called him to be a part of the worship team, therefore we must allow him back up there.” “God keeps no records of wrongs after they have repented” This I understand but for someone who has went out 4 times doing the same sin and is “sincere” every time just to get back up on stage? How should I approach this, the rest of us are working towards being better people in Christ and not sinning, but I feel this person is just trying to be seen. When they get back up on stage the crowd is always almost glorifying this person because they play so well. I feel as though this is a slap to the rest of us, who are legitimately walking our walks.