| Worship Leading is a far more complicated role than | | | | churches that have paid musicians and vocalists but |
| most worship leaders realize! They start off thinking | | | | ninety percent of us have volunteers. In that we |
| that all they have to do is sing and the rest will | | | | must not forget that while we must have a set of |
| follow, but over the years I have been taught many | | | | basic rules of our teams, we must not be hard set in |
| things about worship leading and managing my | | | | our worship leading policies. If your rules are too strict |
| musicians and singers. In creating and working with | | | | and or they are too controlling you will have difficulty |
| different worship teams I have made made hundreds | | | | keeping volunteers. This is a mistake that I made |
| of mistakes, most if which I don't need you to make | | | | early on and soon found out terribly quickly that a |
| when you are Worship Leading . I want to share with | | | | volunteers heart is to serve not be proscribed by a |
| you a couple of things I've been taught, in the hope | | | | bunch of rules. As I recall scripture has things to say |
| that you'll be in a position to duck these tiny bumps | | | | about rules that are too strict. Can we going to act |
| along your own journey. | | | | like Pharisees, or are we going to step up and act like |
| We must recollect the members of the worship | | | | true worship leaders! |
| groups are volunteers. I know there are some | | | | |