Worship Ministry Training Podcast (for Worship Leaders)

Want to ACTUALLY hit your goals this year? In this episode I’ll teach you the proven system I use to hit the majority of my goals every year. This works for both your ministry and your personal life. Good intentions are not enough. We need to determine the highest impact goals, break them into repeatable actions, and keep them visible through regular review. This live training will teach you the system I use to do just that. Let’s make this a great year, and watch our ministries bloom! Enjoy and if you got a lot out of it, share it with a friend! ✉️ Sign up to our email list to get notified of future free trainings. https://www.worshipministrytraining.com/email =============================

If you're struggling with engagement from your people during worship, this little episode should help! In this bonus episode, we answer an academy member question: "How do I increase participation in my old, traditional, country church?" If you'd like to join the academy to get support, coaching, guidance, and training, check out our $1 trial! Get 15 days of Worship Ministry Academy for $1: Get organized and equipped with our 10 in-depth courses, live monthly training, weekly Q&A sessions, pre-built ministry systems and team documents, team discipleship material, personalized help, and a supportive community!  Visit Worship Ministry Academy and start your $1 trial today!   FOLLOW US! TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, or FACEBOOK

Worship leaders often struggle with what to say and pray from the platform. In fact, "confident stage leadership" is one of the biggest challenges we hear from worship leaders all over the globe, regardless of their experience level. If you want to learn how to be a clearer, more confident, and intentional leader when on stage, this episode is for you. In this episode, Jason Squires interviews me about what we should say, when we should speak, and how to lead with pastoral confidence and clarity while standing on the platform. If you want more help in this area, check out our "Increasing Congregational Engagement and Participation" course inside the WMT Academy. Get 15 days of Worship Ministry Academy for $1: Get organized and equipped with our 10 in-depth courses, live monthly training, weekly Q&A sessions, pre-built ministry systems and team documents, team discipleship material, personalized help, and a supportive community!  Visit Worship Ministry Academy and start your $1 trial today!   RESOURCES MEN

So much of worship music today has focused on creativity over clarity and catchiness over truthfulness. The problem with that is that Biblical worship is always revelation, then response. When Christ is clearly revealed in our songs, people will passionately respond in praise. Brett and the team at Journey Co Worship have decided to emphasize clarity over creativity as they write songs for their church. In this conversation, we'll be discussing how we can do the same and consider other important factors while selecting songs for our church's worship vocabulary. If you were helped by this, share it with a friend! https://journeyworshipco.com/   Get 15 days of Worship Ministry Academy for $1: Get organized and equipped with our 10 in-depth courses, live monthly training, weekly Q&A sessions, pre-built ministry systems and team documents, team discipleship material, personalized help, and a supportive community!  Visit Worship Ministry Academy and start your $1 trial today!   FOLLOW US! TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, o

As worship leaders we are at our best when we are invisible. Transparency is the goal. When people see through us and see Jesus instead, we are successful. But that can be hard to accomplish both on a practical level and a spiritual level. When we stand on stage with bright lights shining on us, how can we lead in a way that’s invisible? And when we’re off stage, how can we fight our pride and ego to live a quiet life of anonymity when social media rewards us for showing up and showing off? We’re going to attempt to tackle all of these questions in this thought provoking conversation with Travis Doucette.  The Invisible Worship Leader Article – https://travisdoucette.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/the-invisible-worship-leader/   Get 15 days of Worship Ministry Academy for $1: Get organized and equipped with our 10 in-depth courses, live monthly training, weekly Q&A sessions, pre-built ministry systems and team documents, team discipleship material, personalized help, and a supportive community!  Visit Worship

Do you have background vocalists that would like to start leading songs? What if they aren't quite good enough to sing lead? How can you help them "get there"? What if they are putting pressure on you? How do you handle that as a worship leader? These are all of the questions I cover in today's bonus episode about worship background vocalists wanting to sing lead.  And if you want to ask your own specific coaching questions, join the Worship Ministry Training Academy for just $1

Writing worship songs can be hard. Co-writing worship songs can be even harder. Especially if you're new to songwriting, or your church wants to start a songwriting ministry. It can be difficult to get a diverse group of people writing worship songs together (also known as co-writing). In this bonus episode (taken from our live, private academy Q&A) Stephen Duncan shares some gold nuggets about how to co-write worship songs effectively as a group. If you'd like to join the Worship Ministry Training Academy to be able to ask your own questions to our podcast guests (plus get access to 10 in-depth courses, live monthly trainings, and done-for-you ministry systems that help you get organized) you try the Academy for just $1!

Many worship leaders want to become worship songwriters. This is a great desire. In fact, we SHOULD be writing songs for our own local churches. Who else knows our congregation's needs better than us? Stephen Duncan of the Worship Coalition teaches us how to write pastoral worship songs for our churches. Stephen is an award-winning song publisher and was instrumental in launching Lauren Daigle's career, so he knows a thing or two about great songs! If you desire to write deep, rich, pastoral songs for your church, enjoy these 5 rules of worship songwriting!  Know someone who needs to hear this? Be a friend and pass it on!  ✨ Worship Coalition:  https://theworshipcoalition.org ✨ Songwriting Devotional: http://bit.ly/inhalebook    Get 15 days of Worship Ministry Academy for $1: Get organized and equipped with our 10 in-depth courses, live monthly training, weekly Q&A sessions, pre-built ministry systems and team documents, team discipleship material, personalized help, and a supportive community!  Visit Wo

We all deal with sin on our lives. But how do we as worship leaders deal with sin on our worship team? In this episode, I give real life counsel to an Academy member who's electric guitar player cheated on the pastor's sister with someone else in the church and got them pregnant! Yikes! How do we handle this mess? I hope my counsel to our Academy member, helps you know how you should process these types of situations. If you'd like this kind of personalized support and guidance, sign up for the Academy today: www.worshipministrytraining.com/ Only $1 to try for 15 days!

Pride. It's something many worship leaders and musicians struggle with. Yet, as Christians, we follow the most humble human who ever lived: Jesus. Though Jesus was God, He laid down His rights (and His life) for the good of others. How can we become more humble as worship leaders? And why is it important? How do we handle team members who are exhibiting pride? These are some of the questions I ask Hanz Ives, who has been Greg Laurie's worship leader for over 26 years. He has stood on the stage in front of tens-of-thousands at the Harvest Crucades...and yet he says the most impressive thing he's ever seen are humble and others-oriented people. Let this episode encourage you to grow in your humility. If you enjoy it, please send it to others. https://www.hanzives.com/   Get 15 days of Worship Ministry Academy for $1: Get organized and equipped with our 10 in-depth courses, live monthly training, weekly Q&A sessions, pre-built ministry systems and team documents, team discipleship material, personalized help

Do you feel like you're in a rut spiritually? Do you ever get on stage and lead worship and not even feel God's presence? Are you going through the motions and missing communing with Him? Have things become a routine? The truth is, this happens to most worship leaders at some point in their journey. Standing on stage week after week, we can get into the "mechanics" of the position. Pretty soon we're just executing the plan from muscle memory, and we aren't even personally worshipping God anymore. This was a problem one of our academy members brought forth in our weekly Q&A session, and this was my response. If it helps you, please forward it on to a friend who needs to hear it! Want to submit your own questions?

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Is that a click bait title? Sort of. The truth is, a recent academic study revealed that the top 35 worship songs sung in churches around the globe are directly traceable to only four church groups (Bethel, Hillsong, Elevation, and Passion) and a handful of other artists. This means that a tiny minority of churches are shaping the worship vocabulary, theology, and liturgical methods of millions of churches around the globe. Is that a problem? It depends. In this episode I discuss with Elias Dummer and Shannan Baker about how the Christian Music industry is directly impacting how local churches worship. If you find this episode interesting, or know someone who should hear it, please forward it on!