On Saturday, I challenged you to "linger" in worship. That meant taking time to simply stay in the place you are in instead of rushing from one song to the next to the next.

To LINGER means to stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave. And there really isn't any other place we should be more reluctant to leave than worshiping with our church on Sunday morning…

For most leaders, especially when they're just starting out, their eyes are closed 75% of the time and only opened 25% of the time. Leading with your eyes closed is probably your default. But, there are a ton of advantages to keeping your eyes open when leading - we've covered these at length in multiple posts.

Since we've already covered some positive reasons to keep your eyes open, let's look at some negative things that happen when you don't keep your eyes open…