3 Ways to Evaluate Your Worship Leading
Here are three things you can do to evaluate your worship leading:
1 | Ask: Are people following?
If no one is following you, you aren't leading anyone. Take a look at the people around you. Start with your worship team. Are you giving them direction and are they receiving and implementing it? Maybe you need to work on your communication skills. Maybe you aren't giving them any direction at all and your team is just wandering aimlessly through the songs. Is your worship team following you?
The second area you can ask the question is: is my church following my lead in worship? Are people actively engaged when you lead? Do you even have a clear goal of where you're trying to get to when leading them? Before you move on to the next points, make sure you're actually leading people!
2 | Watch/Listen to the replay
This is the scariest and most uncomfortable thing you can do but it is also the most helpful. Next time you lead worship record it. You can do that multiple different ways: take a direct line out from your soundboard or just set your phone up and record a video. The quality doesn't matter as long as you can hear and see what's going on clear enough to evaluate it.
Then, watch the replay. When you do that, you'll see and hear things that you didn't realize were happening while you were leading. There will be phrases that you say that you don't like. Flat notes you sing that you thought sounded good when you originally sang them.
Identify what you don't like and fix it.
3 | Get a 2nd opinion
It's impossible to not be biased when you evaluate yourself. You are either overly critical or you make excuses for yourself. It's important to get a second opinion. Find someone with some musical skill whose opinion you trust. Give them permission to critique you. When they give you their opinion, don't defend. Understand it, fix what needs to be fixed, and move on.
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