Weekend Review 09-0607-08
This weekend is kind of our get back into gear weekend. We’ve been doing some low key stuff for the
summer, but now that everyone’s going back to school and their routines are getting formed for the year, we’re starting to ramp things back up. Our band was almost full this weekend. I’m doing my best to fill all the slots every weekend for now. That’s totally against my philosophy, but a necessity for right now. I hate the idea of filling slots. It just promotes a lack of ownership, when what we most desperately need right now is a sense of ownership. But, we’ve also got the pressure of being good every weekend for now, so it’s a choice I have to make.
This weekend was youth weekend. We would have liked to have done more that centered around the youth and get the youth
- Indescribable
- Unchanging
- Welcome & Intro to youth weekend
- Parent prayed for youth
- My Savior, My God
- Jesus Paid It All
- Youth Worker prayed for youth
- Sermon by Youth Pastor
- Closing prayer by Senior Pastor
- Enough
It was pretty good. I’ve been sick, so I had to let the other vocalists to most of the leading. I sang where I could but didn’t want to wreck my voice. She does a pretty good job. She’s one of our leaders who does more than just sing when she’s leading, she’ll prompt the congregation too – which is a big part of worship leading.
I’ve been forming bands for the last few months, and next week we start into a rotation of those bands, so hopefully starting next week we’ll be building some ownership and be raising the quality of what we do on a weekly basis around here.
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We have multiple band members for most instruments, except violin and worship leader.
I’ll pray that your rotations work well and that people take ownership.
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“But, we’ve also got the pressure of being good every weekend for now, so it’s a choice I have to make.”
What do you mean by the above?
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I agree…worship leading does involve prompting the crowd, or maybe more encouraging and empowering them. That’s a very important role we can’t forget. Great set.
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Sounds good.
Yeah, it’s great to have a worship leader who prompts the congregation — really leads them — rather than just sings.
Ed:
What I meant is that my philosophy conflicts with simply filling slots to ensure that each weekend is good. I would much rather be building different bands who are committed to each other, than to just have different random groups of people each weekend. But, because we have the pressure to be good every weekend, I can’t really have a weekend where we don’t have a decent band up there. I know most churches feel this pressure. I just can’t have a band missing a couple of key elements, and start to build that group, I have to substitute in other members of other bands.
Bobby & Gary:
Thanks for the agreement! From my experience, in worship, people want to be led. They like to know they’re going in the right direction with you. They like to know when they’re getting ready to sing out, that everyone else is going to be there singing with them.
I was going to ask the “pressure to be good” question too. Is that something you put on yourself, or is it coming from the bosses?
More me putting that on myself than anything. There is a certain pressure from the leadership, but primarily me. And that’s for a couple of reasons, we’re really focusing on outreach, and I want peoples first impression to be good. The best way to attract quality musicians is to have quality music. Most of all, I believe it’s our responsibility to give God the best worship we can.
The sign of a good leader is one that sets the example and puts pressure on themselves to be the best… we need to strive for excellence. We’re serving an Awesome God, the least we can do is do our best…
Another important sign for a leader is one that leads… I know that sounds basic, but if you are not leading people when you worship, it really begs the question… are you really leading?
Totally with you on that Dave!
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