Being a worship leader is SOOOO much more than putting worship sets together during the week, running rehearsals and singing on Sunday. It even goes past the numerous workshops and planning meetings that seem to be never-ending. It takes us past webinars and blogging. Sometimes it is as simple (and as difficult) as being a shepherd within the church in which we are serving.

Encouragement can sometimes be the hardest thing to do even though it can be one of the easiest things to execute. We spend so much time making sure that all of the big time, super important, worship leadery things are taken care of that sometimes we overlook the people that are helping us out on a day to day and week to week basis. I have found that it’s easy for me to let my perfectionist nature when it comes to music overtake my desire to be an encourager of the people that are giving of their time and talents to the ministry as well.

I’m thinking about this a lot today as I’m going to prepping for the first choir rehearsal at the new church. They have been excited to have a choir with a consistent leader before I ever walked in the door good. Well I’m in the door and they have been chomping at the bit. Sunday after service there may have been 1700 people come to me saying that they would be there tonight (which is funny because there were only about 125 people there). I am working through music and all these things and plans for rehearsal, but I am also making sure that I have ways built into my teaching that are encouraging and loving so that we move forward together. I believe that this whole choir concept is going to be a little different than what some of them expect and that’s the plan. I’m ready to see what God’s gonna do because I think it will be fun. I’ll let you know how it goes…