Breakout C – Refining Your Worship Leading – Joe Horness

• Confusion is the enemy of Worship
• Improve Your Process
  • Before taking stage you have already made hundreds of decisions
  • Understand your role
    • Am I a performer or Facilitator?
      • Chris Tomlin on albums is in the key of F# because his voice sounds best there. But when leading worship, lowers keys so people can join in

    Craft a great worship order – like having blueprints for your house – bad blue prints awesome carpenters = bad house

    • Details/?/tools/order
      • Details – child dedication, Bill Hybels says you can’t do a certain song
      • ? – prayer time, what does God want to say? Celebration? God’s promises are true?
      • Tools – what songs work for that
      • Order – Then go through songs and pick an order.

      Where does my heart long to go from here? – after a song what song does your heart want to sing?

      • Go to the band/vocals and say, “here is what we want to accomplish. We want to remind people that God’s promises are true

      Lead a solid team

      • Great people, carefully prepared
      • Tempos, Trans and Scans!
        • Tempos – Tama makes a great programmable metronome
        • Transitions –
        • Scans – know where the song is going

        Prepare for Spontaneity

      • Communicate to Tech Teams
• Refine Your Reflection
  • Ask the Question: What will turn this song time into a worship time?
  • Identify Sticking Points!
    • Through private worship
    • Plan for moments ahead of time
• Craft your Comments
  •  Use scripture as often as possible – anytime you can replace your words with God’s words is a good thing
  • Ask a compelling question -“lord I’m amazed” ask what there amazed about, then tell God right here, now let’s sing it again.
  • Tell a compelling story – “my Jesus I love you” – his wife put post it notes everywhere saying different ways she loves him.
  • Be authentic, honest and real – confess
  • Write it out – write out ahead of time what you want to say
• Sharpen Your Leadership
  • Sharpen your preparation – you should know the song better than anyone in the room
  • Memorize –
  • Know it best – lead
  • Worship through it in private
  • Communicate – with your band, your team, your congregation
  • Prayer – individual and team
• Action Plan
  • Which elements would make the greatest difference in your personal worship leading?
    • Improve your process
    • Refine your reflection
    • Craft your comments
    • Sharpen your leadership

Awesome Breakout! Want to buy this for worship leaders back home!