Part 2: How to Change the Culture of Your Worship Ministry (Podcast) - a podcast by NLW International

Hey everyone. Welcome to the Worship Q&A podcast. I’m Dwayne Moore. Each week, we try to answer questions that worship leaders are asking.

Today the topic is how to change the culture of your worship ministry. We are going through eight practical steps to help you change the culture of your worship ministry. Be sure to read Part 1 of this post for the first 4 steps.

We’ll jump in on step five in just a moment, but before we do, I want to encourage you about two things that are really exciting to us that are coming up soon. One is our ReFOCUS Conference. It’s a worship conference in Pigeon Forge in the Smokies. We have Aaron Keyes coming and some other folks. It’s going to be amazing. We’re going to be at the Black Fox Lodge, a beautiful new lodge there, right in the heart of Pigeon Forge. Hope you can join us for that. Go to our website at NextLevelWorship.com/ReFOCUS for more information and to register.

The other thing I want to talk to you about for a moment is a worship leader coaching that we start again in January. A group of us will be going through some very important practical things to deepen our leadership ability and we’re going to start by focusing on your personal leaderships. I hope you can join us for that. You can go to our website at nextlevelworship.com/training/worship-leader-coaching/ for more information about that.

Now, let’s jump into how to change our culture. Just so you know a little background on me, I have worked in many different churches and different sizes over the years and I’ve found myself having to come in after culture’s already been established in certain churches. That is difficult to do because a certain philosophy and certain habits are already ingrained in people, so it takes time to change those habits and change that philosophy and change that culture. That led me to write out these steps that I have used to help transform the culture of the worship ministries that I’ve worked in.

5. Mentor individual members in character and competencies.

Let’s start today with step five. (Steps 1-4 can be found here.) If you want to learn of the first four steps, you need to check out our part one of this podcast. Step five is to mentor individual members in character and competencies. There’s three parts to that. It’s very important.

First of all, identify them. Who are those people? Not everyone is ready and willing to be mentored. Mentoring requires face to face interaction and an invasion of some personal space. Much prayer and discernment is needed to know who should be mentored and by whom.

The second part is to challenge and teach them. Mentoring is a step above classroom style teaching or discussion groups. Mentoring someone means investing your life into that person for a period of time and intentionally helping him or her grow.

Finally, hold them accountable. In Proverbs 27, verse 17, Solomon wrote, “As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.” Help those you mentor to set goals to grow spiritually in leadership and in their skills development.

6. Empower and expect your overseers to mentor others.

Give them guidelines and parameters. Mentoring is the most important part of this entire process. It will be your key to years of continued growth and ministry...

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