12 Ways To Grow Your Worship Ministry

I love to help worship leaders and worship pastors grow and become all that God has called them to be. I hope these 12 keys (with links) challenge you like they challenge me. I have been leading worship and pastoring for over 30 years but I still go back to this list to see what I need to work on!

12. Develop your administrative skills

• Are you creating timely schedules for your musicians and planning ahead on the church calendar?
• Are your worship sets and services well-organized?
• Does your worship teams get the song list and charts well in advance so they can be excellent?

11. Learn to run highly effective rehearsals

• Are you spending enough time with the music to get past it and worship?
• Are you giving your team all the tools they need to be successful?
• Are you and your team memorizing the songs?

10. Learn to pick great worship songs

• Are you teaching your congregation the great songs from around world?
• Do you ever go outside your preferences in musical styles?
• Are you developing a balanced repertoire of fast, medium and slow songs?

9. Develop a strong team

• Do you have a system for bringing along new musicians?
• Are you developing multiple musicians for each position?
• Are you helping your team grow spiritually?

8. Be a great worshipper

• Are you keeping it real? Be authentic, are you the same on and off the stage?
• Are there areas in your life that are holding you back from God’s richest blessings?
• Do you love the Lord with all your heart and are you a passionate worshipper?

7. Never stop growing

• Are you practicing your singing and playing on a daily basis?
• Are you taking lessons and improving your craft and leadership?
• Are you changing and growing with the new trends, styles and songs?

6. Keep your heart soft and pliable before God

• Have you learned to forgive and forgive again‘?
• Do you have good friends who can speak into your life?
• Do you have safeguards to keep you from falling into temptation?

5. Develop a good relationship with your pastor

• Do you have a regular meeting with your pastor?
• Are you supporting your pastor in private and public?
• Have you ever had your pastor and his wife over for dinner?

4. Mentor the next generation of leaders

• Are you looking for and developing the potential leaders on your team?
• Are you giving room for new leaders to lead a song or worship time?
• Jesus spent over 3 years developing His team, are you following His example?

3. Love the church like Jesus loves the church

• Are you building God’s kingdom or yours?
• Do you love the people you are leading?
• Jesus laid down His life for us, are you willing to lay down your life?

2. Love your spouse and family

• Are you carving out regular time in your schedule for your spouse and family?
• Are you taking one day off per week?
• When is the last time you had a date with your spouse?

1. Love and spend time with God daily

• Are you reading your Bible daily?
• Where is your secret place to meet with God?
• How is your daily prayer life? Are you praying and obeying?

Here are some related posts:

• 10 Ways To Improve Your Worship Team ~ Part 1 of 4
• Actions Speak So Loud (Biblical Actions of Worship)
• Bible Reading Challenge
• 8 Tips On Taking Your Sunday Morning Worship To The Next Level

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