Podcast
SEU Worship Chelsea Plank and Austin Shuffit Every person on their worship team has an expiration date. At Southeastern University, students audition, get developed, lead for a couple of years, then graduate. The team rebuilds itself constantly. It still works. Chelsea Plank and Austin Shuffit lead SEU Worship, a campus ministry of sixty to eighty …
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Paul Baloche Paul Baloche has been leading worship for over thirty years. He will also tell you there were many, many weeks he never sat down with the Lord on his own, then stood on a platform anyway and said, “Hey guys, let’s worship the Lord.” He borrows his wife’s line for it: busyness is …
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Keith Elgin The best piano player in your church might be the wrong person for your team. Keith makes the case that worship team auditions are not American Idol. It’s the first thing that teaches someone what kind of team they’re joining, before they ever play a note. You’ll hear how to build an application …
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CCV Music Put a bunch of similarly gifted people on one worship team and something quietly goes bad. Jordan Howerton calls it poison: the jealousy and comparison that takes root when you start wondering why someone else got that campus, that song, that recording. He also thinks celebration is the antidote, and his teams …
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Keith Elgin A hole on the platform is easier to fix than a hole in your team’s culture. Keith Elgin learned that one the hard way, and he made a list of the other nine things he wishes every worship leader knew. You’ll get his case for why your worship ministry doesn’t need its own …
Keith Elgin: Your Worship Team Needs a Pastor, Not a Music Director Read More »
Charles Weems The song that broke him out is called Slow Me Down. He posted it on Instagram, and his life hasn’t been the same since. Which is a strange thing to build a career on, because everything about a platform says go faster. Charles Weems is 23. He started leading worship at 14, and …
Bethany Wohrle She got to her sister’s apartment right behind the paramedics. She prayed with more faith than she had ever felt in her life, and the miracle didn’t come. Bethany Wohrle kept leading worship anyway. Then she opened a note on her phone, wrote down every angry, honest thing she was feeling, and that …
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DOE Jones “You don’t ever need to get up there and feel like, I got this.” That’s DOE Jones on leading worship, and she means it as a good thing. She grew up a pastor’s kid, earned GRAMMY nominations with her family group Forever Jones, spent 12 years in youth ministry, and just made a …
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Heath Michael Bottomly He gave the stage away on purpose. He still says it hurt more than he expected. Heath Michael Bottomly led worship for years before moving into senior leadership, and he is honest about what happened when the platform went away: he had no idea how much of his identity was sitting on …
Heath Michael Bottomly: Why Worship Leaders Should Hand Off the Stage Sooner Read More »
Keith Elgin If your team can only be healthy when you’re in the room, then your team isn’t healthy yet. That’s where this one starts. The unprepared team, the rehearsal that runs long because people showed up late, the communication lost somewhere between texts, email, and Planning Center. Somehow you end up being the solution …
Keith Elgin: 10 Resources Every Worship Team Needs Read More »
