Worship Podcast & Blog
There isn’t a soul among us who wishes that musicians would stop showing up at our church.
Nobody longs for the day when high quality, skilled, volunteers would just find somewhere else to go. No one.
If you and I could have coffee right now, I’m sure we could talk for hours about the volunteer positions we need filled – about the amazing crop of musicians we just lost to the impending fall semester.
We all need more musicians.
If you’re a musician, you know how difficult we can be sometimes.
Some words that come to mind are high maintenance, arrogant, self-absorbed, and unteachable.
But if you’d like more opportunities to play (and better serve your church), there’s a way to make yourself more attractive to work with.
That’s why you’ll want to tune into these 7 tips for becoming a musician people want to work with.
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The line between rockstar and worship leader seems to be getting closer and closer in our culture.
We consumers travel from concert to concert, album to album in search of the latest greatest talent.
Because of this, we can almost equate worship ministry as a talent show. Whoever has the greatest, most crowd-pleasing talent leads the best worship.
Today, we’re going to strip it all away and look at worship ministry at its foundation. What if worship ministry was more of a local, pastoral calling than it was a platform for your gifting?
Today’s podcast could be considered a “Special Edition”.
I had the privilege of sitting down with one of my favorite singer/songwriters, Derek Webb.
You may know Derek from his days with Caedmon’s Call or his prolific solo career over the last ten years. Such an incredible songwriter.
In this conversation we talk about his new album, “I Was Wrong, I’m Sorry, & I Love You” as well as his thoughts about worship music and worship ministry.
While Derek isn’t a “worship leader”, his perspective on life and music is challenging for anyone involved with music in the church.
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One of the greatest decisions we ever made to our worship team was to memorize our music.
It has helped our stage presence, our stage cleanliness, and improved our musicality. But this doesn’t come easy. Memorizing anything can be hard, especially the older you get.
At least, that’s what we’ve conditioned ourselves to believe.
But what if you started to tell yourself a different story? That you could memorize your music. And not only memorize it, but play with a greater level of musicality and passion than ever before?
I don’t know about you, but that excites me. And I know you can do it. I’ve seen it happen to myself and dozens of musicians at my church.