Routines are important because they provide a system of things that you can do without thinking. They are a series of habits that you develop over time. If you instill the right habits, then you're Sunday morning routine can be beneficial. If you simply wake up late, get a shower, and arrive at rehearsal a minute before it starts, there is more you can do to help you lead well.
Here are 3 things you can include in your Sunday morning routine:
1 | Time with God
It's important to make time with God a priority in your Sunday morning routine. Take time to listen to God before you lead. Your personal worship time will flow into your corporate worship time. Pray for the morning. Read God's word. Listen. Seek God's direction for your church. Allow him to reinforce the message he has placed inside of you during your preparation earlier in the week. What you do in private comes out in public.
2 | Warm up
Give yourself time to warm up. Do some vocal exercises. Run through some scales on your instrumental. This allows you to hit the ground running at rehearsal. The first song of your rehearsal is not the time to warm up. Not to mention there are real physical benefits to warming up.
You can even make this part of your routine with your team. Grab the vocalists on your team and spend 5-10 minutes doing vocal warm ups. Pick a key for your instrumentalists to jam over for a few minutes before you dive into rehearsal. Spending those first few minutes warming up can have a tremendous effect on your rehearsal.
3 | Final preparation
Run-through your gathering one more time in your head. Think about the song list. Go song by song and identify any problem areas you had during rehearsal. Think about transitions. How are you going to get from one piece of your gathering to the next? Think about what you're going to communicate in your transitions. Practice going through them.
What does your Sunday morning routine include? Let us know in the comments!
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