Leading Worship In A Smaller Church

Worship leaders at small churches can learn five principles from the life of a famous football coach to help them to better lead worship. If most of us had our "druthers," and we could choose between leading worship or being part of a worship team in a smaller church (75 to 100 members), or a larger church (500 to 600 or more), we would choose the larger. C'mon now, be honest! Fact is, though, many of the worship leaders and teams ministering today are serving in smaller churches. Since 1975, I have helped build worship teams in five churches, mostly in southern California. Two of the churches grew quickly, having many musicians and creative people to work with. The other three grew quickly but had few musicians. All this is to say, I know how difficult it is to lead the people when you don't have the luxury and the pleasure of having a good solid rhythm section, an inspiring improvisational keyboard player, a tasteful guitar player, and a woodwind or string player. If you are cu…