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Equipping Local Church Worship Teams
If you were raised in church, congregational worship is normal.
You know the ropes – raising your hands, singing, bowing down before God. But for many in our churches today, this is completely foreign.
It’s not that people are disengaged.
It’s not that they hate your songs. It’s not that they don’t want to worship.
Think about it. Many of the people in your worship services have never been in church before.
They don’t know Christ. They don’t understand the lingo. They don’t know your worship songs. They don’t understand why you’re so happy or why your hands are in the air.
As a worship leader, you have a responsibility to teach people. It’s not about the smoothness of your setlist, the rock and roll of your voice, and the dynamics of your stage presence.
If people aren’t with you, you’re not leading. And for people to be with you, you have to teach them.
When I say “teacher”, I don’t mean getting your PHD in worship studies and spending the rest of your life in a classroom. I also don’t assume you have the spiritual gift of teaching.
I’m simply saying you need to be mindful of who’s in your audience and helping them understand what is going on.
Here are a few tips for you to apply as a teacher of your congregation.
1. Be A Worshiper – You may think I could have avoided this one. But there’s probably many times you lead worship but don’t worship. I know I’m guilty. I can be so focused on leading people that I’m not mindful of God – His glory, His nearness, His beauty. But in order to engage the room, you have to engage with God . Your “lost in wide-eyed wonder” worship will be the catalyst that frees people to do the same.
2. Explain Biblical Postures of Worship – When you lead worship, be high on explanation. Don’t just raise your hands, show them its place in Scripture. Never assume people understand what is happening. Model and explain the different Biblical postures of worship.
Clapping – “Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!” – Psalm 47:1
Hand raising – “I will lift up my hands towards your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.” – Psalm 119:48
Shouting – “Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.” – Psalm 33:1
Dancing – Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!” – Psalm 150:4
Kneeling – “Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!” – Psalm 95:6
Bowing – “I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.” – Psalm 138:2
Singing – “Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!” – Psalm 100:2
You can’t avoid it. People will always feel awkward in worship services. It’s your job to minimize that awkwardness. In nearly every worship service I try and speak to those people in the room who aren’t used to it. I say things like:
The best worship leaders create a comfortable environment. They demystify. They set people at ease. They take their public speaking and their people skills seriously.
As you seek to improve your worship leadership, don’t just focus on the performance of your band and the selection of your songs. Also work on explaining, teaching, and helping people relax.
Worship Leader, I would love to hear from you.
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Written by David Santistevan · Categorized: Worship Leaders
Hey David, I have a problem I hope to get some insight on. I am part of the worship team at my church and I have been for about a year now. I really enjoy worshiping God and attempting to lead the congregation in worship but they all just stand there with blank looks. I feel that the problem is that our worship leader who is also my little brother is disorganized and doesn’t really lead or have a direction for the worship team. I myself am a leader type and try to suggest direction but it falls upon deaf ears. and I didn’t believe in myself enough to lead a worship team since I am a pretty quiet guy, But anyway I have learned to get passed the sibling rivalry but his disorganization drives me crazy. We literally meet on Saturdays plan out our songs and attempt to get them ready for the next day. It is really stressful and I don’t feel like I get to enjoy the song and really get into worship and that reflects onto why our church isn’t responding. I have found so much valuable information through various sources and your blog especially but how would you suggest I go about implementing it without trying to seem like I am attempting to steal the “leader position”.
Hey Anthony, tough situation. This may sound funny, but maybe you could turn him onto some resources (like this blog) that would help him with organization. Say, “Hey man, this resource is really helping me. You should check it out.” That way the instruction isn’t coming directly from you but another source. Although, it may be weird if he reads this comment!
Try to “coach” him to his own realization that he needs to change. Ask powerful questions rather than frustrated commands. Does that make sense?
I usually post YouTube videos about worship on our Facebook page but they go ignored so that is discouraging but God keeps me refreshed and longing to worship him so I let it slide. Thanks for the reply I appreciate it a lot.
I needed to hear this. Thanks David.
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I am tired of the teacher worship in America.
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Teachers for the most part are not that great. I'd say I had one great teacher, two really bad teachers and the rest were interchangeable.
My mom used to work for the local school system and she'd tell me whenever there was an opening for an English or History teacher they'd get over 100 applications.
If you want to know why the pay can be low, this is why. Too many people want to be English or History teachers and they have saturated the market. It's simple supply and demand.
Also, as far as pay goes, do some research before you try to become a teacher. If the pay in your area is low and you still want to be a teacher, that's kind of you problem.
I'm also tired of hearing how hard they work. They get 2 1/2 months off a year. I work hard 12 months a year and I don't get a prize. Stop your whining.
Also tenure should not be a thing. I've heard too many stories from my mom about lazy teachers that can't be fired. Teachers should get 3 year contracts and should have to earn those contracts. Most jobs are not guaranteed, why are they the exception.
Finally, I just don't think most teachers are that great. How many teachers really impact the lives of their students? I am not saying it never happens, but it's not as much as it's portrayed on TV.
Anyway, that's my opinion. Sorry for the long read.
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There always that one teacher those people admire so much that they turn a blind eye to how generic all the other teachers are. They are just people and like any job. A large amount are probably terrible at their job just like most places.
Looking back, most of my teachers had no fucking clue about the subjects they taught, and their main job was babysitting. The days I learned most were when they just told us to open the book and do a bunch of exercises. I'm in my late 20s and I'm interacting with teachers on a peer level. They are simply not as invested in their job as my colleagues in PhD programs, professional school, finance, computer science, or any other high paying field.
Most people I know from high school who became teachers were honestly not that self-motivated or intelligent. They liked the idea of being a teacher and the schooling was relatively easy. They had never worked particularly hard in their lives, so when they got a job that required them to actually do something for 8 hours/day they got really overwhelmed.
The teacher worship comes from the disconnect between the need for good teachers and the way we reward good teachers. Good teachers are incredibly important. A society filled with good teachers will succeed in every way. However, because we don't reward the outcomes of good teaching, school administrations are not motivated to hire good teachers. Thus they don't need to attract anyone with a particular skill set, and the demand for good teachers is low. So teachers get paid like shit across the board, and when the most intelligent and motivated students decide on career paths in high school and college, very few of them decide teaching is their goal.
What all the mediocre teachers complaining about low pay and no appreciation don't understand is that if the job of a teacher came with high praise and high pay, they wouldn't even have broken into the field to begin with. It would be filled with more motivated and hardworking people who would justify their pay in ways that the current workforce simply can't.
Plus schools dont make that much money my school is really well off but at the end of the year the school only had a couple thousand
dealing with little dipshits all day, I would steer clear of that responsibility
Totally agree with this. Just graduated this year from High School, and we had an amazing Law Teacher who taught us all sorts of cool things. He treated us like we were his children, and even kids with attitudes would listen to him. Such a great guy.
Unpopular. I agree with you in every way, but it’s just not popular.
since you put "Unpopular" in uppercase the first time, it didn't count but when you said not Popular it was all lowercase so it counted you broke the system
Something I've always thought about that ties in with this is how everyone gives the education system shit for prepping kids to test and not actually teaching.
Honestly I think the reason education is so standardized is also because most of our educators (at least from my experience in and after school in America) wouldn't have the skillset to do it any other way. The basic fact of the matter is most of the concepts taught in school (especially pre-highschool) just aren't that complicated and most individuals with a bit of training could reasonably be expected to teach them. This leads to low standard pay in the same way that fast food work does, with pay being based on speciality and replaceability. So it's kind of a multi-faced problem where we could pay more, but why would we, it would strain taxes and the jobs aren't hard - but at the same time the lack of pay is causing everyone that might be special and memorable to go elsewhere and that leads to a one-size-fits-all test prep system of monotony and passing kids along.
It's definitely an interesting problem for sure, at this point I don't really think there's any way to fix it in America at least. I do agree the trend of basic teacher worship and support without thinking is stupid though. Most of the people posting that type of garbage on FaceBook and what not probably wouldn't even be able to give one serious answer as to why they support it other than "because teacher".
I'd get rid of homework. Lots of first world countries have done this already. You should be able to learn in the 7 hours a day you are in school.
There's no reason essay's can't be done in school either. I say leave school at school.
I'd say that standardized tests exist to hold teachers AND students accountable for the knowledge that they are supposedly receiving. I see what you're saying, in that teachers wouldn't have the skillsets, but the teacher has the responsibility to instruct potentially 200 students with various different backgrounds and skills. This is simply an impossible task for one person to accomplish without the use of one specific measurement of knowledge.
Students are just as accountable. There is a lot of pressure on the teacher to instruct and make sure students know what they need to in the 7 hours they are there everyday. While this is indeed true, the students are responsible to hold onto this knowledge through studying and expanding or reinforcing knowledge at home through homework. This falls on the shoulders mostly of family/the parental dynamic, which is largely non-existent in lower-class and working families because of the need to work more than one job.
Above all else, the so-called "teacher worship" I believe comes in because we expect teachers to perform the near-impossible task of raising some of America's children when the parents do not. And in the more impoverished areas, this job is absolutely harder and can be very thankless.
Students, in particular teenagers, do not want to learn what ive been assigned to teach them. The only way to get them to care is tell them it will be on the test. Ive tried many strategies such as activities, group discussions, videos, games, and god knows what else to get them to care about the math and they just don't. So i just tell them to know it for the test and then i focus on the literally one kid per class who actually wants to learn and understand. It's a flawed system and receives a lot of criticism in which teachers take the direct hit. Find teachers students who actually want to learn and do something other than browse social media on their phone, and the right teachers will work wonders.
The solution is even less popular. Failing kids. The real source of the problem in the US education system, and the reason there's no incentive to hire good teachers, is grade inflation. A high school diploma, hell even a bachelor's, isn't worth the paper it's printed on anymore.
Genuinely... Some of the dumbest people I know became teachers.
I just saw them partying, and while my final design project was to design a chemical plant, their's was to write a kids book... i did that in 1st grade...
I subbed for a year and I remembered how dumbfounded high school AP biology students where when I could actually answer their questions.
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