If you’re involved in leading corporate worship and you desire to get better at it (as we all should) then there’s no more important question than this:

“What makes any corporate time of worship successful”

If you don’t have a good (and biblical) basis for this you can find yourself working hard to achieve the wrong things. I also have often spoken to people who feel frustrated and hindered in their worship leading by things which – to me – aren’t important anyway. (Usually of the “we don’t have a drummer”, “our musicians aren’t good enough”, “the congregation doesn’t like the songs on my favourite album” type stuff)

Below is a great clip from Bob Kauflin talking on “What makes a successful time of corporate worship. He makes a great start with the following quote:

“If your goal is to pull off a highly-polished, sweetly arranged, musically-sophisticated time of singing that’s not necessarily a successful time of corporate worship.

The right goal… is to magnify the glory of God in Jesus Christ through the power of the spirit….I want them to see how the glory of Christ – what he’s done, who he is – affects their lives.”

Also watch out for his “one other thing that he adds” at around 4min. Hugely important factor in “what makes a successful worship leader”

Any other thoughts on what makes a successful time of worship? Feel free to comment below.

You can read more from Bob on his blog at http://worshipmatters.com