The most practical worship leading tip I have. (Use it this Sunday)

[@ukulele4worship]

I never thought about the "this can do many things" versus "this is only one thing, for a reason" aspect of having the physical Bible present. Love that insight.

[@CalvinLimSH-ld5le]

When you sing with an inner smile, open your eyes wider and lift your eyebrows up, you find your singing voice tends to sound much brighter and pleasant to the audiences. Don't forget how to position your hands as you are singing caused it can portray a positive or a negative energy to the audiences. Normally a forward lifted open palm up is preferred over to a closed bend hand towards the floor. Thanks for the tips of leaning or backing off from the microphone to tell the audience and the worship team when you going to start or pause singing for a while to give others a chance to catch their breath. Apart from the normal hand gestures we used to tell the worship team members to repeat chorus or end certain verses. Let us as worship leaders communicate effectively to the audiences and the worship team members what you are gonna do next when singing or leading people by giving your best to sound good for the glory of God.

[@ThomasTye-i3m]

I used to play with a drummer at my last church who looked at me for those little queues. Didn't realize I did them until he told me😅

[@donbrees7758]

Good video. Before I started actually playing and singing on the worship team, I ran the slides for the lyrics and used various “tells“ of the singers to know when to put up the next slide after an instrumental interlude. Things such as lifting the mic towards their mouth, women flinging their hair back, etc.

[@lilliancarroll1074]

It’s the little things sometimes ✔️

[@Eran55]

Really cool video, was just wondering if you could make a video on tips for the Youth joining a team or leading worship.

[@1968LTS]

💯 agree

[@wnhlwntk]

I sit at the keyboard when sharing Scripture. If I read from a Bible my head would be looking down, rather than when reading from my typed verse near my chord sheets and my face would be facing forward. Plus the Bible wouldn't be visible if I was holding it, and somewhat in the way of my mic and stand. I agree with you though.

[@nrcarl00]

Hey Spencer! Soemtimes when I’m leading I look out and can’t help but dwell on the grumpy looking people who stand there with their arms crossed and a frown. Any advice for not feeling cold towards them for that, it is hard when I see that week in and week out! Thanks Spencer

[@johnd3964]

I get the point but partially disagree about leaders keeping eyes open. Too often I've seen leaders looking at congregants while singing, and this seems more like a performance to an audience rather than modeling worship. Yes we should be attuned with the congregation, but sometimes modeling worship IS personal and closing eyes can be good modeling of heartfelt worship at times -especially since many congregants tend to sing without heartfelt worship.

[@TheWelcome7]

Most of the time the congregation is looking at the lyrics on the screen

[@carlostorres1171]

It's always funny to me how many WL's (not Spencer) are like "performance bad," but basically all of the practical elements of being a good WL *on the day* are in fact *performance skills* 👌🏼