Worship Online Podcast (For Worship Leaders)
Sep 24, 2026 · 40 min · 11 segments
Put a bunch of similarly **gifted people** on one worship team and **something quietly goes bad**. **Jordan Howerton** calls it poison: the **jealousy and comparison** that takes root when you start…
Jordan HowertonGuest
Keith ElginHost
And you're, you know, we have a, a wide range of worship leaders, worship teams l- that listen to the Worship Online podcast, and probably your worship and production teams are bigger than a lot of churches, right? And-
What is, what do you feel like y- you would describe as leading a worship ministry as a whole actually look like at that scale?
With 18 different campuses, um, almost every single one of those campuses we have a, a campus worship pastor, and so somebody on that campus who's kinda leading the charge of the worship culture of that particular-
And what I have found, 'cause I've been in, in worship ministry for a long time, I've been in varying sizes of churches, um, what I've learned is that there's this built-in, um, so long as we keep it healthy, this built-in camaraderie-
... where, um, you've got people who are doing a similar job at a different campus, and you can just reach out, or you have a, a team huddle every week or every other week where you can say, "Man, I'm struggling with this.
What have you done with that? Uh, this song is not landing as well at our campus as it is there.
Like, how are you setting it up?" And so, um, being able to do that in community has been-
And you're, you know, we have a, a wide range of worship leaders, worship teams l- that listen to the Worship Online podcast, and probably your worship and production teams are bigger than a lot of churches, right? And-
What is, what do you feel like y- you would describe as leading a worship ministry as a whole actually look like at that scale?
With 18 different campuses, um, almost every single one of those campuses we have a, a campus worship pastor, and so somebody on that campus who's kinda leading the charge of the worship culture of that particular-
And what I have found, 'cause I've been in, in worship ministry for a long time, I've been in varying sizes of churches, um, what I've learned is that there's this built-in, um, so long as we keep it healthy, this built-in camaraderie-
... where, um, you've got people who are doing a similar job at a different campus, and you can just reach out, or you have a, a team huddle every week or every other week where you can say, "Man, I'm struggling with this.
What have you done with that? Uh, this song is not landing as well at our campus as it is there.
Like, how are you setting it up?" And so, um, being able to do that in community has been-
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