What Is Worship Leading?

What is worship leading? Why is it so important? The following article addresses the nature and importance of good worship leading. It attempts to dispel some misconceptions concerning the subject and offers helpful and practical tips. Toward a Definition of Worship Leading: What Worship Leading Is Not Worship leading is not just leading songs, choruses, or a song service. Someone fulfilling these roles is traditionally viewed as a worship leader. However, it would be more accurate to define someone in this role as a song leader or "music director. " In this model, a song leader or music director is an intermediary between musicians and other people. Usually his or her duties are to fill in time, to entertain, to prepare the crown for the sermon. Someone who travels with an evangelist or a convention or seminar speaker, whose purpose is to act as an introduction to the main speaker, would be a good example of a person filling this role. This person is song leading. Oftentimes, afte…