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Recently, as part of study for a new Worship Leading book by Sheena Doorn, I was asked " What factors have hampered the move of the Spirit in your experience during Praise and Worship leading? What has aided it? This was my answer, and I believed it might provide you some insight into the situations we as worship leaders face when worship leading. OK, where's my soapbox! Gosh, I could go on for hours about this! But allow me sum up... 1. Me: The number one interference to worship should lay on my shoulders, since I am responsible for the worship while I am the worship leader. My heart should be right, and I need to listen and observe during worship. If I hold back and things fail, the buck stops here. Even if the band makes a mistake, I continually take personal responsibility for it, for the reason that that is good leadership. If we want to be fantastic at worship leading, if we require the blessings, we should take responsibility. 2. Religion: OK, this is a great big one, and I am not talking regarding candles and incense. There is, shock horror, only as much "religious spirit" in Pentecostal churches as there is in conservative, it simply looks different, but it can influence our worship leading in a similar manner. Religion involves things like... a) The formula: If we do 3 fast and 2 slow, God will demonstrate up. Utter garbage really, but loads of pastors think like this b) Rapid songs: if you don't do a speedy song, nobody settles and God will not move c) Set programs, which we are on no account to vary, such as “we only ever do 2 songs, then we have announcements, then one song then the missionary spot, etc.” d) Free worship: we have to have free worship every Sunday, since that's what God likes. But, asks I, what if God is doing something unusual that Sunday morning? He won't, they respond, God's a Pentecostal, and He loves each one singing in the Spirit. Some one the most horrible, un-anointed times I have ever experienced in worship, both as a worship leader and as the congregation, have happened when, clearly, the leader has been intent on doing a “singing in the Spirit” session and has forced it. You can only sense that it is not simply lack luster but also just painful. 3. Fear: As a worship leader, we reach many times a point where we have to let go and permit God, we merely listen and obey. This might be whether we do another chorus, go into open worship, roll to the next song, have a period of silence, allow a new song or prophetic song, etc. True worship leading is letting go and letting God have His way, and that's surely is the style of worship leading we ant to aspire to! 4. The Band not following: Often, especially with inexperienced musicians, I can perceive where the worship is going, but the band completely misses the moment. If you work with great guys, perhaps may not happen, but in my church it is common. Sometimes you sense it rising up, other times dying down, and if the band does the reverse it becomes a big mess and absolutely halts the flow of the Spirit. When leading worship, I will often present quite directions off mike, saying things like, “come on, guys, let's go for it,” or “just pull back for a bit.” 5. The wrong decision: We might be worship leaders, our enthusiasm is to be leading worship in a totally anointed way, but we are all imperfect, and get it wrong sometimes. In the heat of the moment although worship leading I will occasionally may the wrong choice. This is minimized by having a close walk with the Lord, and spending a lot of time with Him. If I do make this wrong decision, most often the worship time is redeemable. I simply confess it, and move to the following song or section and this time, depend on God and listen to what He has to say. When worship leading, I try and prevent making the identical mistake more than once!
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