Hey worship leaders (and non-worship leaders if you want to respond as well),
If you could have 10 minutes of worship leading coaching from any living worship leader, who would you want to hear from?
Thoughts?
Todd
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It’s probably pretty obvious who I would choose for 10 minutes of worship leading coaching. But perhaps it would be more helpful to know why. I was on a worship team for many years and have met quite a few worship leaders over the years, both professional and non-pro. Some tend to use all praise music to raise spirits and focus on the goodness of God. We certainly need that. A few worship leaders and teams are more performance-oriented than worship oriented. They fail to realize they can’t effectively lead others to worship by simply sounding great and choosing upbeat songs. Worship leaders lead by engaging in worship themselves.
Before I spend 10 minutes learning from a worship leader, I want to spend months or years finding out who he/she is. I want to see them have a consistent and passionate love relationship with Jesus. I want to see someone who admits their own brokenness and brings that reality without pretense into worship because it invites me as a broken person to come honestly into God’s presence, not just blankly repeating empty or flattering words of praise. A good worship leader balances songs of lament over our sin with songs of highest praise, and has keen sensitivity toward the needs of worshipers at any given time. A great worship leader tunes his/her own heart before leading others, engages in personal worship while leading, invites people to come as they are into God’s presence, and then ultimately lifts their focus from their own need to the beauty and sufficiency of Christ as healer and redeemer. It’s THAT worship leader I choose to learn from. But 10 minutes is never long enough!
In my earlier post, I didn’t mean to imply that I can’t learn something valuable from someone regardless of whether I’ve just met them or whether I’ve gotten to know them quite well. It’s just that I am more deeply impacted by people who live out their worship, and it takes time to observe that characteristic in them.
Hands down… Martin Smith.
I agree with Brenda, but I think I would love to have ten minutes talking with Chris Tomlin. He seems to be a genuine and very compassionate worship leader.
Aaron Keyes
Definitely Keyes.
I like Kristian Stanfills energy. You dont have to be super articulate, just on fire. It runs off on you.
I would want to go find a worship leader in a third world country where worshipping Jesus is risky but the worshippers just keep coming. Guess that doesn’t give you a name or anything, but I think that would be someone worth hearing what she or he has to say.
John S of Petra
Micheal w smith
Todd Agnew, he does a variety of types of music. Hee hee