Most of you reading this blog eat meat, it is good. Unless you don’t eat meat, and then it is bad.
The pinnacle of meats is the “Steak”. You go to the market and pick the best one, take it home and lovingly season that puppy, slap is on the grill of your choice and consume said “Steak”. No matter how you slice it, you love it.
The problem is that not everyone likes the way you might make steaks. Too hot, too cold. Too red, too tough. It is almost unattainable to please people when serving steak, unless they have imbibed the fire water.
Quite surprisingly leading a worship team is just like making a steak. You put all this time into making it the best set possible. You pour over the songs with uncontested fervor. It isn’t enough that you found the exact key that most people will be able to sing the songs in, you go a step further to seek out others advice as to whether or not people will “Get” the songs.
Sunday comes and goes and Monday you get the reactions to your attempts to help people worship with abandonment. Needless to say, they hated your steak, some loved it but those 2 people who really “didn’t care for it” tank your mojo.
How do you deal with that? Talk about a waste right?
The best way I have found to deal with never feeling like you can please anyone with your choices is:
Stop trying to please everyone.
When you try to do that you will fail every time, nothing you do is ever going to please everyone. Find the direction your pastor or lead team wants to go and lovingly bring those naysayers along.
Find the nugget.
Look at things that might give you an edge with those that don’t “Get It”. If it is the older generation that wants more hymns, find a hymn that can revamped to be relevant (sound cool) thus increasing your mojo all around.
Write your own stuff.
This is hard to do if you have either; never done this before or have no time to do it. That being said, it is the best time you could give yourself. You’ll find that not only will you feel really cool because A D G never sounded so good when it is your song, but also it is a super good way for a worship leader to recharge or center themselves. You might even get good enough to sing it on Sunday.
This list is not the end all be all but it would’ve sure helped to know that when I was just starting out. Got any BBQ tips to cause I stink at that as well. :)
What say you?
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