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Recently, as part of study for a new Worship Leading book by Sheena Doorn, I was asked " What things have hindered the move of the Spirit in your experience during Praise and Worship leading? What has helped it? This was my answer, and I believed it might offer you some insight into the instances we as worship leaders cope with when worship leading. OK, where's my soapbox! Gosh, I could go on for ever concerning this! But allow me summarize... 1. Me: The number one hindrance to worship should lay on my shoulders, for the reason that I am responsible for the worship while I am the worship leader. My heart should be right, and I want to listen and obey during worship. If I hold back and things flop, the buck stops here. Even if the band makes a mistake, I continuously take personal responsibility for it, since 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 enormous one, and I am not talking regarding candles and incense. There is, shock horror, only as much "religious spirit" in Pentecostal churches as there appears to be in conservative, it simply looks different, but it can affect our worship leading in a similar manner. Religion needs things like... a) The formula: If we do 3 quick and 2 slow, God will demonstrate up. Utter rubbish really, but lots of pastors consider like this b) Rapid songs: if you don't do a rapid song, nobody settles and God will not move c) Set programs, which we are on no account to vary, such as “we merely ever do 2 songs, then we have announcements, then one song then the missionary spot, etc.” d) Free worship: we have to have open worship every Sunday, because that's what God likes. But, asks I, what if God is doing something out of the ordinary that Sunday morning? He won't, they answer, God's a Pentecostal, and He loves each one singing in the Spirit. Some one the most hideous, 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 strained it. You can simply sense that it is not just lack luster but also only painful. 3. Fear: As a worship leader, we reach many times a point where we have to permit go and let God, we only listen and observe. This might be whether we do an additional chorus, go into open worship, roll to the next song, have a session 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 feel where the worship is going, but the band utterly misses the moment. If you work with fantastic guys, maybe may not happen, but in my church it is common. At times you sense it rising up, other times dying down, and if the band does the reverse it becomes a big mess and without doubt halts the flow of the Spirit. When leading worship, I will often offer quite commands 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 eagerness is to be leading worship in a entirely anointed way, but we are all imperfect, and get it wrong sometimes. In the heat of the moment despite the fact that worship leading I will occasionally may the wrong decision. This is reduced by having a close walk with the Lord, and investing a lot of time with Him. If I do make this wrong decision, most often the worship time is still OK. I merely confess it, and move to the following song or section and this time, believe God and listen to what He has to say. When worship leading, I try and avoid making the same mistake more than once!
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