Reading: What is a Worship Leader/Director

How to be an effective 
Worship Leader
What is a worship leader/director?
Steve Elzinga

Qualities of a Worship Leader
A Worship Leader is a

Facilitator

Leader

Learner

Servant

Teem player

Encourager

Committed

Organizer

Tactful Motivator

Music lover

Gifted Musician

Delegator

Worshiper

Patient

Worshiper
Ephesians 5:19-20 Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Facilitator
Ephesians 4:29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

Servant
Romans 12:3-6 (NIV) For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.

Learner
Proverbs 18:15 (ESV) An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Leader
Philippians 4:9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Team Player
Romans 12:4-5 (NLT)  Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.

Encourager
Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV)  And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Organizer
i.e. Joseph

Committed
Philippians 3:12-14 (NIV) Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Tactful Motivator
1 John 4:19 (NIV) We love because he first loved us.

Music Lover
Ephesians 5:18-20 (NLT) … be filled with the Holy Spirit, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts. And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Gifted Musician
Amos 6:5 (NLT)You sing trivial songs to the sound of the harp and fancy yourselves to be great musicians like David.

Patient
Romans 8:24-26 (NIV) For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?  But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

Delegator
Luke 10:1-3 (NIV) After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.