This post comes from material from the Austin Stone Worship Leader Development Program. Click here to learn more about developing as a worship leader.
Communicate with the teaching pastor
- Ask for the passage of scripture he is preaching from
- Ask for information about how he is landing the plane
- Ask how he wants to go into the sermon from worship and how you should hand it off
Read the passage of scripture
- Pray for discernment as you continue to prepare
Use Planning Center Online
- Look at the songs that have been led at this campus/church over the past 2 months
- See which songs seem familiar, which songs seem over played, what songs will fall fresh on the congregants ears and need to be kept in front of them
- Create a list of 10-20 songs that are possibilities
- Pray again for wisdom and visualize how to go from one song to the next
- Pick a song or two that are no brainers that go along with the sermon, or clearly need to be kept in front of the congregation during specific season of worship
- Visualize praying or briefly teaching within the worship set
- Pray and ask God to bless your preparation process.
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