Keys to Becoming an Effective Worship Leader Chapter 3

Most of the time, we focus on being the best musician that we can possibly be. Of course practice and the sound of the music is important, being humble is really important. David worshipped not in front of many people, but instead he worshipped God while guarding sheep. He was never recognized for his talent, yet God knew that he worshipped wholeheartedly. Sometimes as worship leaders, we try to focus more on if the sound of the music is top quality. But God doesn't need the best music in the world, what he wants is our hearts fully devoted to worshipping him. God wants our hearts focused on him and not ourselves.

As worship leaders, it is really easy for us to want to make worship sound amazing and do all the newest and coolest songs. However, the music is not as important as what we are saying to God in our hearts. We could be leading worship and thinking more about how great we sound or we can sing the words and sing them to God. Even when we are not leading worship, our attitude should be that God is first and not on if the music sounds bad or how we can make it better. We need to give our hearts to God in worship, on and off stage.