You don’t need more discipline in your life. You need more . . .
I’ll admit it – there are some things in my life that I’m disciplined in and some things I am not so much.
Are you with me on that?
For instance, I feel I have a lot of discipline when it comes to the work of ministry, but I don’t do as well when it comes to showing restraint with one of life’s greatest temptations – Read more
Did you know . . . This summer is the perfect time for your team to grow?
That’s the question I’ve been asking in Part 1 and Part 2 of this new series on How to Grow Yourself and Your Worship Team this summer.
The last two weeks I’ve challenged you to have a Passion for growth this summer and to partner with God in Praying for growth this summer. . . two very important parts of your growth plan.
But without this 3rd and final element in your Growth Plan for the summer, the first two will soon fade.
Last week we started a 3-part series on How to Grow Yourself and Your Worship Team this Summer.
As you know, many worship leaders look at the summer as a time to GLIDE . . . to just get through the summer months and pick up where they left off in the fall.
But I believe the summer is a time for GROWTH – both for you personally as well as for your team.
It’s starts with developing a Passion for Growth. But that’s not all . . .
How to Grow Yourself and Your Team this Summer
A worship leader told me once that the summer was the worst time of year for his team to grow. He went on to explain that because of this, he took it easy during the summer, didn’t challenge his team (or himself) to grow and just coasted through until fall arrived.
What I told him next was hard for him to swallow, but absolutely true.
Because he “took the summer off” from focusing on the growth and health of his team, he stumbled into the fall with the same team, the same challenges, and unfortunately, a full 25% of the year where no growth happened and no one joined the team.
I don’t want to see that happen for me or you this summer.
So, this summer you have a choice to make. . . Read more
“Are YOU ready for Rehearsal?”
That’s a question that I recently posed to a worship leader who was having trouble with his team being prepared and passionate about rehearsal.
His response confirmed my sneaking suspicion . . .
He wasn’t ready and here’s how I could tell:
Several years ago a producer friend of mine from Nashville asked me to write and record a worship album for his label. (No – this is not a joke – ha!)
I was honored – he is a Grammy-nominated producer, has big distribution channels, and frankly he’s a good friend so I really wanted to do it.
I had a choice to make . . . I could do the album OR I could start WorshipLeaderInsights.com and train worship leaders. I simply didn’t have time for both (and working full time at The Journey).
To keep this brief . . . I don’t have a worship album in Walmart. 🙂
Those who know me well have asked me why I chose to pass on the album and focus on training Worship Leaders.
My reason: Both were great options, but training worship leaders (for me) gave me the greatest opportunity to serve the church and make a difference for the Kingdom of God.
You see . . . there are TWO very important principles that I live by.