I received an email from a fellow creative arts pastor, Andy Goswick, asking some leadership questions and I thought i’d post my replies here for all to read. Hope my answers are good.
1. What is worship to you? it is a response to something with wholehearted affection, loyalty, and energy. anything that receives our attention, priority, and is recieving our worship.
2. In what ways can we worship or through what venues can we worship? by absolutely everything we do we offer worship to something prayerfully it be to the only One who deserves the worship.
3. How important is worship? (Why?) interminably important. it reveals our heart’s devotion and mind’s affection on what/who we place our trust and admiration.
4. As a worship leader, what is your primary role? eliminate distractions so everyone, including myself, has no obstacle and can worship freely.
5. What are the roles of the musicians, AV guys/gals, and any other parts of the team? to help the worship leader eliminate distractions and provide a reciprocal offering that is worth presenting to the Master Musician who blessed them with the gift and opportunity to use it.
6. How do you bring unity to your team? spiritual leadership (i hope - at least that is the goal). If your team is being effectively discipled, they will be unified.
7. What are some key components of your success? considering how much I still want/need/have to learn before I would even begin to consider myself “successful,” I can only contribute where I am and how I got hear to being obedient to God’s call on my life when I so often wanted to go in another direction.
8. What is your assessment of how your team is doing at any given time? real actual personal one on one conversations…and a lot of them.
9. What improvements, changes, or adjustments are you implementing to continue improvement of your team? personally, i’m reading more books on leadership and having conversations with others who are doing better what I should be doing to further understand to capacity of my responsibilities. I pass that along to those who are leaders on my team and encourage them to do the same to those whom they have influence over. I am in a constant state of searching for people who are looking for a way to serve and further training those who have shown passion and enthusiasm to take their responsibilities to the next level.
10. What are some of the challenges you’ve faced and how did you overcome them? (Or have you yet?) in trying to take care of my people I fool myself into thinking asking them to add something to their already busy plate is an unhealthy burden. This i am still working on as I look for more new people who are gifted in certain areas to take these weights not only from off my shoulders but also the shoulders of those on my team that are already carrying a pretty large load. It is always difficult to delegate to someone who is not going to do the work as well as you or someone else could. But 3, 6, 9, 12 months is going to come whether you want it to or not and you might as well train your people to do it or be stuck in the same place you are now when the year is over. Besides, it is possible somebody on your team who is capable of doing task A is overlooked because they are already doing task B, C, and D. But maybe the new team member can do B, C, or D so give them one of those tasks and ask the more capable person to take on A instead.
So what about you…how would you answer these questions?
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