{"id":136,"date":"2007-11-27T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/27\/raising-up-new-worship-leaders-helps-deal-with-burnout-5-of-5\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T19:44:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T01:44:41","slug":"raising-up-new-worship-leaders-helps-deal-with-burnout-5-of-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/raising-up-new-worship-leaders-helps-deal-with-burnout-5-of-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Up New Worship Leaders Helps Deal with Burnout (5 of 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what happens when we think we don&#8217;t have the right people in place to raise up?\u00a0  It&#8217;s time to ask some questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you praying?\u00a0  If you aren&#8217;t praying for a person to train and raise up, chances are that God&#8217;s not going to give you one.\u00a0  It&#8217;s possible that He would, but much more likely that He will if you ask Him.<\/li>\n<li>Are you looking?\u00a0  Or are you just saying &#8220;There&#8217;s no one available&#8221; when you haven&#8217;t even looked?<\/li>\n<li>Are you asking?\u00a0  It&#8217;s very likely that your pastor or another ministry leader would know of someone with the gifts and abilities you&#8217;re looking for.\u00a0  Ask them!<\/li>\n<li>Are you equipping?\u00a0  Surely you already have several volunteers involved in your music and worship ministry.\u00a0  Have you been training all along, with the intention of raising up someone out of that group?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In summary, the best way to avoid burnout in your ministry is to let go of our selfishness and our fear, learn how to train and equip, and pray, look, and ask if there is anyone available to raise up.\u00a0  Once that person (or persons) is found, the burnout we would face from trying to do everything ourselves will go away, and a new leader will emerge.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/raising-up-new-worship-leaders-helps-deal-with-burnout-5-of-5\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what happens when we think we don&#8217;t have the right people in place to raise up?\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to ask some questions: Are you praying?\u00a0 If you aren&#8217;t praying for a person to train and raise up, chances are that God&#8217;s not going to give you one.\u00a0 It&#8217;s possible that He would, but much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-worship-leaders","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}