Worship Leaders Lead People

Worship leaders should make a priority of developing management skills, and not excuse themselves from this on the basis of their being artists. Rather, they are prophet-musicians in the church, a position that carries tremendous leadership responsibility. I was startled one day to realize that worship leaders really don't lead worship. They lead people. This was new revelation for me. It meant that management skills were needed by worship leaders, too. Worship leaders, however, are not always happy to find this out. It may be revelation, but it's also hard work. Rationalization by Artistic People. There are several problems inherent in building a team out of such a diverse group of people as "musicians. " Having an artistic bent myself, I can readily identify with the rationalizations artists use to escape management responsibility. Perhaps the first of these is,"Artists are supposed to operate more by emotion and spirit, less by reason. " That sounds logical, but it allows artist…