Question:
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
- Proverbs 11:14
I am putting a booklet together with practical advice for young people going into the ministry. Whether they are a pastor, evangelist, missionary, preacher or teacher.
I am not looking for sermons or sermon outlines. I am looking for insight on any subject you might give someone to avoid mistakes made in the past by yourself or any other folks in the ministry. Names are not needed.
Please indicate, when submitting each nugget of guidance, whether you prefer acknowledgment or privacy.
Thank You,
Lupe Sanchez, Pastor
Bible Baptist Church
Conroe, Texas
thepreacher1@hotmail.com
Answer:
This is some advice I gave a new worship leader on another post. Hope this helps somehow. You can give credit if you want. Oh, and you can re-format anything I said to fit what you're using it for.
Jason Lowe
Russellville, AR
I'm 21 and I have been doing worship since I was 14. I know how you feel (I think). I was really scared when my youth pastor approached me to lead worship. I tried to get out of it because I felt that God could have chosen someone so much better, but he called me for a reason, just like he called you. So good luck!
As for advice, I would tell you to find a mentor. Find a much older, experienced worship leader to help you. Not necessarily someone to teach you your instrument, or even anything about music, but someone to guide you and answer questions. I know that my mentor prays for me every day. He has been doing worship for about 30 years or more, and is very well known in Arkansas.
Another thing, which almost everyone else has said too, is pray for the annointing. It breaks the yokes man...Without it, we can't do our job effectively.
Answer:
Please don't cross post. Clopsed.