The Worship Leader is a Spiritual Leader
Worship Leaders
by EXW Staff
November 01, 2005
By John Pape, Jr.
Moses was called by God to serve a specific group of people. He took the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered them to the Promised Land. As you know there were a few snags along the way that caused these people to wander in the desert for forty years. But, these were the exact people that Moses was created to serve.
As a worship leader in your church, you have a responsibility to serve that group of people for the season of time God keeps you there. Spiritual Leaders are servants to those around them. Jesus was the perfect example of this as we look at this Scripture:
Directing this group of people toward God's Purpose
Help people become effective tools for the Kingdom - do these three things.
1.Help them to Discover their place in the Body of Christ
2.Help Them Develop spiritually
3.Help them Deploy their place in the church.
Three things to remember.
Discover -> Develop -> Deploy
Once you know your team member's individual Spiritual Gifts it is your
responsibility to help
nurture those gifts. Discipleship is key in the development phase.
Nothing is worse than unrealized talent. Or talent that is wasted sitting
on the shelf. Therefore
it is vital that each person deploy. That is "go into all the world." You
see someone with a
calling on their life; you do a disservice to the church by hindering the
execution of that part.
To Bring Glory to God
The ultimate Goal it to bring Glory to God. As musician it is tempting to
pursue ego
gratification. Your performance in judged not by how well you did - It's
based on how well you
related to God and His purpose. The object of your worship is God. It is
our job to take our
Gifts and Talents and use them to give God glory.
There are entertainers and there are worship leaders. Each one has a
different objective. An
entertain often times bring glory to themselves. And music is entertaining.
Yet it is also a tool
used by God to be used by the Church to worship Him. There is a distinct
dividing line
between doing something by our own strength or allowing God to do it.
You bring glory to God when you die to self and serve the people with song.
You bring glory to
God when the people are able to focus on their Creator and Savior. In many
respects you are
a tour guide. Helping people to have an intimate relationship.
This article is an excerpt for the new book by John Pape, Jr titled
"Building a House of Worship" For more information on how you
can get your copy of this book go to...
http://www.mediatunes.com/bhow/
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great encouragement thanks
thank you for such an amazing article im sure it will make people all over the world relize what worship is all about,,,,...more
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