I'm Not a Worship Leader in a Huge Church, and that's...OK
by Gary Durbin on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 3:02pmActually, it’s not just ok, it’s great. Let me explain:
I’m a worship leader in a church that runs around 250-300 on a weekend. The average church in America runs around 80-100 on a weekend, last time I checked. That being said, we’re above average. There are certainly bigger churches. We have Calvary Chapel, here in Melbourne, and they have about 7,000-8,000 on a weekend, from what I understand. I’ve had the pleasure of leading a service there, and it was great. Then, there are those that run anywhere from 500-3,000. As a worship leader for the
Wow…wow, what an amazing night. Last night we had a Night of Worship called "Timeless". We worshiped with hymns that have been the church for generations and some new songs that I believe will carry on as well. Of course, there are so many songs that would fit in this category, and there’s no way to do them in one night, so I really prayed about this one. I prayed for just the right songs for this particular night, and God delivered. I think I can say that it was just a perfect night, and we worshiped a perfect God. We had two big sets
This was our last week of our series on the Fruit of the Spirit. We had a great time of worship. We just lifted up who God is. We focused a lot on the holiness of God. We did the song "Everything" by Tim Hughes. That song is simply amazing. It’s very simple, yet very powerful. It’s even a little high in range, but it’s one of those songs where range doesn’t matter to them. They just belt it out. I also pulled out an oldie from Vineyard’s Hungry album, called "You are a Holy God". I really love that song. It makes me think of heaven and worship in
Today’s worship was special. We had a rough week here in "321". Tropical Storm Fay was a mad lady that decided to hover over our area for a couple of days and ended up flooding a lot our city. We had people coming to church today carrying in the burden of flooded homes and evacuations. It was a touch situation to approach. God put the words in my mouth. I didn’t plan on saying it, but it was appropriate. I just said, "Well, we’ve had a crazy week, but we’re here right now. Let’s just leave the week behind us for a little while enjoy God’s
Healer, Healer, Healer. This song is it right now. It seems like there’s one song every year that takes the cake, and I think Healer is this year’s song. God is using this song all over the world, and today our church finally got introduced to it. It was powerful. This is a song that our church needs right now. I’m sure, like a lot of churches out there, people are hurting and broken. There are broken families, broken marriages, and people that are going through physical
Today was one of those days that I love. My favorite days to lead worship is when I walk into the worship center and sense what I call a buzz. It’s hard to explain or describe. It’s some unseen, unheard quality in the air, and I can actually sense that the people or ready to worship. I call it "the buzz". I walked in and immediately felt that today. From the first note to the last, the people engaged, and I just walked off feeling so grateful, yet unworthy to lead these people every week.
Here was our set list:
Today was incredible. We started off the morning by finding electrical problems in our sound booth. There was a total of 3 outlets out, so I grabbed a power stripped and began consolidating everything together. Long story short, everything worked great. We’re just praying that we get to the bottom of our on going electrical problem this week.
Every worship leader who leads with a guitar has at least commonality. We all have broken a string while leading worship. It’s a weird situation, because you are thinking different things, like "I need to find a second to tune my other 5 strings." Today that happened to me at the end of the first song. Obviously, I should have changed my strings this week, because I had used it a lot more than I thought the last couple of weeks. When I first started leading worship, I led without an instrument a lot, but I haven’t done that for 4-5 years. I decided to
