#5 Worship Leaders Who Worship

There’s nothing quite as convincing as a worship leader who is worshiping whilst they lead. Often the worship leader looks and sounds like someone who is ‘leading worship’. The look and feel of a worship leader who is actually doing what they are encouraging us to do is entirely different. The effect on me is entirely different as well.

Even on days when I feel least like engaging, the sight of a worship leader worshipping draws me in. Devoid of any other reasons, sometimes it may well be simply that I may as well join the worship leader.

Singers can also have a similar effect. Some singers look like they are on a stage singing in front of people. Others look ‘lost in worship’, regardless of who is front of them. There is no ego, no self, just a person lost in worship. I think we can all tell when the ‘look’ is effected, and when its not.

There is a particular singer in our church who has a look of such love and wonder on her face as she worships. I don’t know how anyone can look at her and NOT feel inspired to connect in that way. Her offering of song in worship appears to be given with deep sincerity and the result is to my naked eye as if she is illuminated. Of course she is illuminated by our lighting rig but this is a different kind of illumination. The notion of of ’shekinah glory’ becomes less and less a theological notion when you have such people involved in leading worship. You begin to see this manifested in real life. People lost in worship reflecting the glory of God?

So thank you to all those worship leaders and singers who worship whilst they lead. Thank you for your honesty and genuineness. You help me so much when I am distracted and listless.