Raising Up New Worship Leaders Helps Deal with Burnout (4 of 5)
This week we’ll finish looking at some reasons why we might be afraid to raise up new worship leaders, which eventually causes us to burn ourselves out.
One of the reason that we don’t want to raise up new worship leaders is that we don’t know how. This is a very valid reason with some potentially easy solutions:
- First of all, learn how. This might seem obvious, but many times we rely on our own talent to get us through things. Because we rely on our own talent, we don’t know how to teach and train others. It is our responsiblity to continuously learn and train ourselves. I believe the most important training we could ever go through is that of learning how to equip others.
- Recognize that you might not have the gift of teaching. The Bible is clear that certain gifts are given to certain people. Perhaps you can play and instrument, sing, and lead worship really well but you have no idea how to teach others how to do it. Find people who do. Find music teachers within your church or even within your community. Find people that can teach you how to be a better leader, and let those people teach your volunteers as well.
- Make time to teach. So often in the world of church music we are constantly rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing. Schedule some time for teaching. Come up with a monthly workshop time to teach your volunteers. If that is too often, do it quarterly, or even twice a year. Make time to teach.
Tomorrow we’ll look at what happens when we think we don’t have the right people in which to pass on leadership.
Good post. All across the board we need to make time to teach. We often teach when we have time left over, which is just as effective as giving & saving at the end of the month.
One solution is to manage our lives & ministries in such a way that we are always teaching. This is good to do intentionally, for it is actually reality. Parents often learn that in retrospect.
Which reminds me- when does the “baby blog” start?