As a leader, there’s nothing more important than defining and protecting your team’s worship culture. A team’s success and failure rises on the health of its culture and how well it’s protected. But you can’t protect a culture if it hasn’t been defined. And you can’t truly lead unless you’ve defined what you’re leading toward.
Culture manifests itself in many ways. There is macro culture and micro culture. Macro culture is the 100,000-foot view, “big picture” vision that sets the stage for everything else you do. Micro culture are the processes and systems you execute every day.
For example, your dress code is micro culture. How you develop worship leaders is micro culture. They are both reflections of the values you most hold dear, and are a snapshot of who you are as a team and a church.
How to Create a Healthy Worship Culture for Your Team
Before we dive into defining a macro culture, there’s an important step that sets the stage. A worship team’s macro culture cannot be defined apart from the large church vision.
Removing Ministry Silos
Your ministry is not a stand-alone entity that exists within your church. It is a living, breathing extension of that vision. This is where a lot of Worship Pastors and Lead Pastors uncover tension: A worship team is operating as a silo within the church. This can happen because a Worship Pastor is disagreeable and not a team player. But it also happens when a Lead Pastor hasn’t clearly defined and communicated the vision. Where there’s no vision, leaders will perish. They’ll either create their own, or they will leave. That is why it’s so important for the Lead Pastor and Worship Pastor to be in unity, moving together as one.
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But don’t feel despair or pressure here. Oftentimes all it takes is getting into the same room and having an honest conversation. Commit to working on this together.
Take a look at the diagram below. This is how your worship ministry will make the most sense:
The GLOBAL Church
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Your Local Church
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Your Worship Ministry
This is the diagram of a healthy expression of a worship culture. There’s the Global church across the world. All nations. All tribes, colors and tongues. Varied styles and denominations. This is the overall vision of the church: to glorify God by reaching all nations with the message of Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit.
