So, we are blessed to have many worship teams and members at our church. My goal is to get the worship leaders to take note of team members that excel in either spritual encouragement and or techinical skills at executing their craft as players. The vision here is for worship leaders to develop leadership skills in these members and offer them the opportunity to serve a real leaders for other team members that lack in one or both of these areas. I think it would be honorable to give these members recognition by upping the ante for them and challenging them to a position. It is my hope that this program would ease the load for our worship leaders and give others the opportunity to mentor others.

I have participated in worship for three years at our current church and a few years at another church years ago. In these years, when I hear team members argue over striving for excellence in their craft, I always see “insecurity” as the main culprit. My heart goes out to these members! I don’t know for a fact, but in my experience as a musician, it doesn’t make sense to me that one would invest themselves to overcome the obstacles of learing their instrument proficiently enough to play in worship, but yet don’t want to excell beyond a basic proficiency. Fundamentally, there something wrong here and an area for ministry that would pay off in dividends.

Even if the reality is that one is “OK” with just being good “ENOUGH”, it would then stand to reason that they also would have to admit that they view the “Church Gig” at a skill level that is beneath the level of a “Real Player” (semi-professional and or professional). This may be the fault of worship leaders in “under-emphasizing” the “excellence” required to perform in the capacity of worship. I feel that there is a huge ministry here to encourage these members. Placing importance on the skill needed to perform in this capacity, should help to further the idea that being excellent in your craft is what is expected and why “they” are on the team in the first place. This should serve to both send the message that a certain performance level is expected and that they have what it takes to begin this journey in worship.

Anyway you look at it, I think that the originator of this post is right on. There is a huge ministry here to be developed for worship team members.

Cleophas