Your Worship Team Needs a Pastor, Not a Music Director w/ Keith Elgin

All right, here are 10 things that I wish every worship leader knew.

All right, so here's the first one.

Your pastor does not need you to have your own vision.

They need you to help carry the church's vision.

If you look at historically what worship ministries do is with creative people leading, sometimes we end up thinking, well, I want to enact my vision on this area of the church.

And worship ministry doesn't have its own mission.

It doesn't need its own mission.

It needs to know how to serve the mission of the local church.

Now, obviously, the local church is carrying the vision and the mission of the big C church, which is literally what Jesus told us, right, to go make disciples.

We want to love God and love others.

We want to live these things out.

And each church kind of has their own spin.

So our church is to help as many people as possible live fully alive.

That's based on John 10.10, that the thief comes to kill and destroy.

But Jesus comes that we can live life to the fullest, that we can live fully alive.

So our worship team at our church, we're not figuring out how do we create a – what do we want our worship team's vision to be? We want to create the most powerful – no, we're like we want to help lead worship so that people live fully alive.

And what happens is a lot of times churches, they see, you know, and maybe you've fallen this.

It's easy to fall into it, right? And I do the same thing.

You watch on Instagram or YouTube or whatever, and you see, oh, this is what church A, B, and C are doing.

I want our church to be like that.

So then you're kind of copying what they're doing.

And so now you're like, well, I'm going to figure out how they did that.

So you start to look at practically how they did it.

And you start to implement maybe their systems.

Maybe you start to do their songs more.