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Worship Team Devotions - Make it Specific

It's best to make your worship team devotions specific to your team. This is the one time a week where you have the opportunity to specifically pour into your worship team. This isn't just a random group of people - these are people that are gathered together for a specific reason.

Too often leaders treat team meetings as "just another bible study." They pick a seemingly random topic and dress it under the guise of spiritual development. Here's the thing: the expectation for your team should already be that they are adequately involved in the life of your church and be receiving spiritual development because of that.

I'm challenging you to put in a little extra effort and formulate a plan that allows you to speak to your worship teams needs.

Here are 3 categories you can focus on:

1 | Musical

Obviously your team is involved in leading musical worship. Spend some time focusing on musical skill - (we are to play with excellence after all). What if we didn't just use that as a buzz word phrase but actually implemented a plan to make it happen. Spend time working on a musical aspect of your worship leading - tempo, rhythm, music theory, musical communication.

2 | Spiritual

It is, of course, also important to focus on the spiritual side of things. But when you do, make it specific to worship leading. Take them through stories of how people worshiped in the Bible. Ask them questions about what God is revealing to them in their life. Ask your team what stories they're aware of in your church that can fuel your team as they lead worship on Sunday.

3 | Worship Leading

Talk about the specifics of worship leading. Answer questions they might have: what are they supposed to do when they're not playing? How can they better engage the congregation? How can they enhance their worship leading with their actions off stage? Open these questions up for discussion and allow them to move your team forward in their worship leading.