The author's Quest

I need your answers

I have some questions for you Worship Leaders.

1.What does Worship mean to you?

2. Are you an Equipper or a doer?

3.How often do you introduce a new song?

4. Do you arrange songs? Do you arrange old hymns and breathe new life into them occasionally? (We don’t do a lot of hymns)

5. Are you engaging in worship and do you connect well with people from the stage?

6.  Do you engage and connect well with people off the stage?

Alright, am not gonna answer all these questions directly but am gonna tackle them using some helping stories then all you have to do is fill in the blanks.

Now let's get started, this is it, there's a church or fellowship with two types of Christians; 

Person A. is this christian who is well known in church, he drives everyone crazy in singing skills and everything, he's too close to the pastoral body and for your info the Senior Pastor is one his/her fans, this guy feels like everything in his spiritual life is cool since he can move anyone surrounding. When he shows up for prayer, he's there's to render a service and he knows when he misses out in any of the meeting then the fellowship turns out boring... cool. 

Person B, is this guy he turns up in church and not many understand his spiritual life to begin gauging it with the one at the foreground, but the beauty about this guy is that he is always connecting to his Deity, he's always reconciling and pondering more to know what happens to his righteous soul, reads the bible to himself and not because he's going to teach others, moves out to preach for the expansion of the kingdom not to increase numbers in church so offertory increases too and is scared of destroying his reputation by acting funny in the community. who then between the two has answered question 1 well... i leave you to digest that for yourself. 

learning from strings

   2.I like tuning guitars and playing them, when my guitar is well tuned a with new strings, i am sure it's going to deliver clean musical sound, am also sure the listeners to anything i present will be inspired by the melody that comes out of it, hence a driving force to reaching out to the outer atmosphere of Worship. 

Worship leaders too, must be people who equip/prepare others for a certain task and responsibility. You cannot call yourself a successful Worship leader when you song and lifestyle doesn't set others to ready themselves for the challenges ahead of them. We have always heard people say stuff like, so and so inspires my worship life, this person sings meaningful songs and when i dig deeper to his or her life, still she inspires my physical life too. Learn to Equip your congregation and not just a doer. I hope this answers question 2.

1. worship involves speaking, (may be through a song or preaching)
2. worship involves listening, and
3. a worship involves doing right rather living a righteous life.

a meal brings answers

In a family, the work of a parent is make sure something new always come on the table. Now if a mother or father constantly brings one dish on the table, he will to his surprise realize no one turning up at the table. Now if this is true about a feeding then it's the same thing psychologically in the minds of worshipers. Worship Leader be very sensitive to your crowd on a certain song, it might have been exciting four weeks ago to sing the same song but now you have realized no one is dancing to it anymore, when you sing the same song over and over, it becomes obvious and some of your people may get bored of it they end up sitting down. Now am not benching on the fact that you stop the song, you can put more ingredients on it, modernize the song to a new groove. some Leaders are more creative to recreate an old song and it come back to life just like the same old dish if well prepared will still bring family members back to the Dining room.