Sometimes improving your worship leading is less about learning a new skill and more about learning a new way of thinking.

When you shift your mindset - instead of just improving ONE area of worship leading - you improve several areas at once. Every decision you make can be filtered through this new mindset.

The result? Huge improvements in your worship leading simply by THINKING about things differently.

How's it play out?

Here are 3 worship leading mindset shifts to improve your leading:

1 | Corporate worship is different than personal worship

When you start viewing your CORPORATE worship time differently than your PERSONAL worship time, things change.

By the way, I think there's some confusion when I speak of CORPORATE worship.

Corporate is not corporate in the sense of a large corporation with rigid, inflexible rules.

Corporate means pertaining to a group.

So, when we facilitate corporate worship we make decisions with the entire group we are leading in mind.

That means picking songs that OUR CHURCH needs to sing instead of songs WE want to sing.

That means picking keys that work for our CHURCH instead of keys WE sound the best in. 

Corporate worship is different than personal worship.

2 | It's not about ME sounding good it's about giving my church the opportunity to respond

Yes, we want to lead with excellence. But our goal is not musical excellence. (controversial - I know!)

Our goal is leading our people in worship with excellence.

That means that it's not about US sounding good - it's about providing OUR CHURCH the opportunity to respond in worship.

When we try to SOUND our best, we pick keys that work for those of us who have a wider range than the majority of the people we're leading.

When we try to SOUND our best, we pick complicated songs that showcase our musicianship.

When we LEAD our best, we pick keys our church can sing.

When we LEAD our best, we pick songs that are simple enough for people to sing along with.

3 | "Following the Spirit" doesn't mean not preparing

Preparation is key.

A planned worship set is not less spiritual than an unplanned one.

That is all.

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