Love this. As a pastor preaching is so much the same. The Holy Spirit pours out when we have sat with God and allowed ourselves to be sponges. Great video teaching. Never underestimate the power of simple.
As much as I love the gear videos, this is THE content. Really inspiring, encouraging, and most of all refreshing! I remind our team every Sunday, not all songs are “old” to the congregation. A big part of our scheduling is based on congregation engagement and can, at times, feel repetitious…
Bradford this was awesome. A little testimony from me I lead the worship team at our BCM in Jacksonville. I’ve started about a year ago now and it’s been decent in years previous and even in last spring semester it was good but it wasn’t great. Over the summer I was convicted to really focus the team on worshipping themselves and focusing on Jesus before anything else. So me and the guy who I’m training to lead the team decided to make changes to our worship team expectations list and to change a few things of how we did regular old BCM gatherings, the most prevalent being before we begin we meet for prayer as a team, even if you’re not singing or playing, and it’s a time for people to pour out whatever is on their heart and mind so that we are able to worship Jesus without bearing our own burdens and being weighed down or distracted by something. One thing as the leader when choosing who is on singing and playing, as well as who can join the team I have is if you can’t worship while you’re behind a mic or playing an instrument, I can’t in good conscience have you up there leading. WE as the people leading in song must be able to worship to lead others to worship. So that’s what we’ve done. It’s been awesome to see the repercussions of it. We have a very stripped acoustic set, two mics, acoustic guitar and cajon. I play acoustic and don’t sing so it’s been a cool dynamic of me being able to lead the team and equip them to be able to lead the congregation through song. And making our mindset about chasing Jesus and the Holy Spirit instead of chasing some experience or how do we make it this huge thing has really changed how everyone worships there. Week in and week out I’ve seen more and more people engage in worship. Hands up, singing along, crying, it is really powerful. And people there used to not hardly engage at all. And all we did was shift our focus to realizing Jesus is all our focus should be and becoming a true team where we are friends as well. We don’t necessarily perform any better, don’t have any huge instrumentation, just very Spirit-led and boy has the Spirit moved. It’s crazy too cause there have been times where the whole team has just had a crazy week and we’ve just felt this huge weight in all of us, which leads to the set logistically might not feeling the greatest, but us pouring out our hearts at the feet of Jesus in worship just opens the door for the Spirit to move. By that point you have no idea what He’s gonna do. All you have to do is present yourself as a sacrifice to Him. The days where I’ve felt maybe the set wasn’t as good has been some of the days where people have been touched the most by worship in song and that’s when I’ve realized it’s not about what we do but what and who we chase after and in our lives that dictate the Spirit moving Anyway great word Bradford. This is just a testimony to exactly what you delivered in this video. Keep up the awesome work bro
Thanks B. I'll store this in my heart. I joined the church band 10 months ago. I play electric guitar. Been a blur. A blur. Because i also do street ministry and drive big rigs long hours. You guys have been a critical piece to my puzzle. Video after video. Completely free. Dude iim so greatful. Know that. And man I'd love to jam some worship with ya when we finish the race. I know the spirit of God is working in you because this is the same message the same urge that I have had. Just go back to the prayer closet and chill out. Rest. Let Jesus prepare me for whats comming.
I'm not a worship leader, but have played "lead" guitar in P&W teams for many years. This was well presented, basic - as you said - yet immensely practical and worshipful. Big plus - I put my screen on 4K; this video, with the message and the nature setting, was very relaxing, and easy to listen to! Normally in a 10 minute talking video I would be pressing buttons and moving on, but I just sat back, enjoyed the scenery and the water (might have been nice to hear it a bit more!) and took in your message. I needed this today! Thank you! God bless!
If you have played lead guitar for many years, as have I, then you are a worship leader. You don't have to be the lead singer or a pastor to lead worship. Everyone on our team leads in worship. I consider it my ministry contribution, you should too.
Man this was a pleasant surprise. Please don't get me wrong, but I wasn't expecting this kind of reflection from you, Bradford. We are grateful for your message and for having this excellent resource on WT as worship leaders. Thank you Guys. God bless.
Thank you. Great words and love the balance of your perfect patches with a video like this. Always resourceful towards worshiping God better because He always deserves to be praised more. Appreciated
Biggest piece of advice I have ever heard is that we should know the songs musically well enough to where we don’t even have to focus on the technical aspect of playing it. Instead, we can focus on how the Holy Spirit is moving in the moment and have the freedom to worship ourselves.
Great video. Very encouraging. I just deactivated my Facebook because I play the comparison game too often with friends’ churches. I love my congregation so much, and I realized the comparison game was hurting me and not helping.
A lot of times, the way we hear the songs in our head doesn’t match up with our skill level musically so we end up trying to overplay the parts based on how we want it to sound instead of playing the parts within our own skill level. So in other words, be as skilled as you can be so you can cater to the song in the best way possible in the moment
Diggin it. I like hearing when u and the guys talk about the prep and spiritual side of music. Id like to hear more from u guys what your experience is like that have made being part of a band positive vs toxic if u hv time. Blessing to your ministry!
Did you all see the Churchfront video this week? The guy made the point, Martha wasn't doing something wrong she was doing at the wrong time. We should prepare before/outside the manifest presence of Jesus.
@@bmitchellmusic almost like it's being orchestrated by some shared spirit. Weird. He also made the point that As Mary's it's a WL job to draw Martha in.
When I first started going to church I thought we were just singing songs. I would like a song depending on the hook or the beat. As my walk matured I learned that we are singing to the Lord his praises. We are glorifying Him. So now I am leading worship at our local home group. So I always remember I am not entertaining my brothers and sisters I am leading them in worshiping Jesus. Do not try to impress them with my ability. When they are watching me they need to be looking at who I am looking at and that is Jesus. If they are looking at me then I am not doing my properly. Try to encourage everyone to sing along. Tell them they are singing to the Lord. Find a scripture that is relevant to the song and read that before singing. It is worship not entertainment.
It's kind of funny. I am an atheist from an atheist family and with zero interest for anything church-related (there is a reason my family is no longer Christian and I am not here to argue about that). But this video can give you some life advice. I went through a lot in the past few months and, honestly, yea. While I will never agree with the belief framework, the kind of lessons you can get are of high value. You just have to reinterpret them a bit. This goes to show how a large part of religious practice and stuff like mental health and mindfulness are so similar and have the same roots. And it's absolutely charming not only to see the connections, but also to find ways to connect with yourself from sources that don't match your beliefs.
This is some good fundamental advice. It's nothing new, but it's good to be reminded of these things sometimes. Unfortunately, the inspirational music behind Bradford saying "memorizing your music is beneficial" cheapens the experience for me.
Many churches have fallen into a trap that I call “Bethelization” of their worship. I am not criticizing Bethel or their music, but what I am concerned about is that we look at their worship videos (and many others) and think this is the level of expertise that our church must maintain. So we hire staff, establish budgets (and membership goals to support those budgets), put in systems (PAs, click tracks and multitracks), cull our volunteer musicians down to only the most skilled, all to emulate what we see in videos produced by professionals with astronomical budgets. The worship experience on Sunday moves toward performance and entertainment. As a volunteer musician, I have suffered through this transition. If my skills are not up to par, they just turn me down and turn up that instrument in the loop. Can we slow down the ending of a song? No. The click track won’t allow it. Can the leader insert a spontaneous tag or chorus? No. It takes too much re-programming of the set list. Small to medium size churches need to be very wary of what they want to become.
Thank you for this! More worship leaders need to spend time at Jesus' feet, in His presence.
Love this. As a pastor preaching is so much the same. The Holy Spirit pours out when we have sat with God and allowed ourselves to be sponges. Great video teaching. Never underestimate the power of simple.
As much as I love the gear videos, this is THE content. Really inspiring, encouraging, and most of all refreshing! I remind our team every Sunday, not all songs are “old” to the congregation. A big part of our scheduling is based on congregation engagement and can, at times, feel repetitious…
Bradford this was awesome. A little testimony from me
I lead the worship team at our BCM in Jacksonville. I’ve started about a year ago now and it’s been decent in years previous and even in last spring semester it was good but it wasn’t great. Over the summer I was convicted to really focus the team on worshipping themselves and focusing on Jesus before anything else. So me and the guy who I’m training to lead the team decided to make changes to our worship team expectations list and to change a few things of how we did regular old BCM gatherings, the most prevalent being before we begin we meet for prayer as a team, even if you’re not singing or playing, and it’s a time for people to pour out whatever is on their heart and mind so that we are able to worship Jesus without bearing our own burdens and being weighed down or distracted by something. One thing as the leader when choosing who is on singing and playing, as well as who can join the team I have is if you can’t worship while you’re behind a mic or playing an instrument, I can’t in good conscience have you up there leading. WE as the people leading in song must be able to worship to lead others to worship. So that’s what we’ve done.
It’s been awesome to see the repercussions of it. We have a very stripped acoustic set, two mics, acoustic guitar and cajon. I play acoustic and don’t sing so it’s been a cool dynamic of me being able to lead the team and equip them to be able to lead the congregation through song. And making our mindset about chasing Jesus and the Holy Spirit instead of chasing some experience or how do we make it this huge thing has really changed how everyone worships there. Week in and week out I’ve seen more and more people engage in worship. Hands up, singing along, crying, it is really powerful. And people there used to not hardly engage at all. And all we did was shift our focus to realizing Jesus is all our focus should be and becoming a true team where we are friends as well. We don’t necessarily perform any better, don’t have any huge instrumentation, just very Spirit-led and boy has the Spirit moved. It’s crazy too cause there have been times where the whole team has just had a crazy week and we’ve just felt this huge weight in all of us, which leads to the set logistically might not feeling the greatest, but us pouring out our hearts at the feet of Jesus in worship just opens the door for the Spirit to move. By that point you have no idea what He’s gonna do. All you have to do is present yourself as a sacrifice to Him. The days where I’ve felt maybe the set wasn’t as good has been some of the days where people have been touched the most by worship in song and that’s when I’ve realized it’s not about what we do but what and who we chase after and in our lives that dictate the Spirit moving
Anyway great word Bradford. This is just a testimony to exactly what you delivered in this video. Keep up the awesome work bro
I needed this video. Thanks Bradford.
You are speaking the truth Bradford. Good points to follow.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s something we all know but rarely live out and we suffer because of. Great stuff Bradford.
Thanks WA team!
Thanks B. I'll store this in my heart. I joined the church band 10 months ago. I play electric guitar. Been a blur. A blur. Because i also do street ministry and drive big rigs long hours. You guys have been a critical piece to my puzzle. Video after video. Completely free. Dude iim so greatful. Know that. And man I'd love to jam some worship with ya when we finish the race. I know the spirit of God is working in you because this is the same message the same urge that I have had. Just go back to the prayer closet and chill out. Rest. Let Jesus prepare me for whats comming.
Thank you
I'm not a worship leader, but have played "lead" guitar in P&W teams for many years. This was well presented, basic - as you said - yet immensely practical and worshipful. Big plus - I put my screen on 4K; this video, with the message and the nature setting, was very relaxing, and easy to listen to! Normally in a 10 minute talking video I would be pressing buttons and moving on, but I just sat back, enjoyed the scenery and the water (might have been nice to hear it a bit more!) and took in your message. I needed this today! Thank you! God bless!
Very cool! Appreciate the comment and the support!
If you have played lead guitar for many years, as have I, then you are a worship leader. You don't have to be the lead singer or a pastor to lead worship. Everyone on our team leads in worship. I consider it my ministry contribution, you should too.
Man this was a pleasant surprise. Please don't get me wrong, but I wasn't expecting this kind of reflection from you, Bradford. We are grateful for your message and for having this excellent resource on WT as worship leaders. Thank you Guys. God bless.
dont gimme a mic, imma talk at ya 😜
Wow, all I can say is amen! Thank you..
Thank you. Great words and love the balance of your perfect patches with a video like this. Always resourceful towards worshiping God better because He always deserves to be praised more. Appreciated
Great thoughts Bradford. Appreciate you brother! ❤
Thank you for this message!
Greetings from The Netherlands
Great reminder guys
Love the message, love the setting. You need to keep up this kind of content - simple - heartfelt - well executed. We all need these reminders.
Biggest piece of advice I have ever heard is that we should know the songs musically well enough to where we don’t even have to focus on the technical aspect of playing it. Instead, we can focus on how the Holy Spirit is moving in the moment and have the freedom to worship ourselves.
Absolutely! Love it.
I really appreciate this type of video. Thanks for sharing, Bradford and team!
Brad, Thank you for this!!! LOVE YOU MAN!!!!
thank you, man!
Great video. Very encouraging. I just deactivated my Facebook because I play the comparison game too often with friends’ churches. I love my congregation so much, and I realized the comparison game was hurting me and not helping.
i watched this before leaving to lead for a youth group service. totally changed my perspective
awesome! Thanks for watching and for sharing that :)
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I thought you were going to sell me a term life insurance policy at first. I half expected Henry Winkler to pop out and give his testimony.
😂😂
I was waiting for some pill I'm supposed to ask my doctor about.
...he didn't?
Heyyyyy!
Hello from Asheboro, NC. We could always use encouragement. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
A lot of times, the way we hear the songs in our head doesn’t match up with our skill level musically so we end up trying to overplay the parts based on how we want it to sound instead of playing the parts within our own skill level. So in other words, be as skilled as you can be so you can cater to the song in the best way possible in the moment
Good Word brother! We need more of this. Blessing to your ministry!
Thank you Scott!
Diggin it. I like hearing when u and the guys talk about the prep and spiritual side of music. Id like to hear more from u guys what your experience is like that have made being part of a band positive vs toxic if u hv time. Blessing to your ministry!
good idea! Thanks for watching!
Did you all see the Churchfront video this week? The guy made the point, Martha wasn't doing something wrong she was doing at the wrong time. We should prepare before/outside the manifest presence of Jesus.
I did not (this was shot a few weeks ago, btw.). Similar idea to what I'm sharing I suppose :)
@@bmitchellmusic almost like it's being orchestrated by some shared spirit. Weird. He also made the point that As Mary's it's a WL job to draw Martha in.
When I first started going to church I thought we were just singing songs. I would like a song depending on the hook or the beat. As my walk matured I learned that we are singing to the Lord his praises. We are glorifying Him. So now I am leading worship at our local home group. So I always remember I am not entertaining my brothers and sisters I am leading them in worshiping Jesus. Do not try to impress them with my ability. When they are watching me they need to be looking at who I am looking at and that is Jesus. If they are looking at me then I am not doing my properly. Try to encourage everyone to sing along. Tell them they are singing to the Lord. Find a scripture that is relevant to the song and read that before singing. It is worship not entertainment.
It's kind of funny. I am an atheist from an atheist family and with zero interest for anything church-related (there is a reason my family is no longer Christian and I am not here to argue about that).
But this video can give you some life advice. I went through a lot in the past few months and, honestly, yea. While I will never agree with the belief framework, the kind of lessons you can get are of high value. You just have to reinterpret them a bit.
This goes to show how a large part of religious practice and stuff like mental health and mindfulness are so similar and have the same roots. And it's absolutely charming not only to see the connections, but also to find ways to connect with yourself from sources that don't match your beliefs.
Good Word brother! We need more of this
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Awesome thanks
thank *you*!
This is some good fundamental advice. It's nothing new, but it's good to be reminded of these things sometimes.
Unfortunately, the inspirational music behind Bradford saying "memorizing your music is beneficial" cheapens the experience for me.
I was thinking this was a WT ad for Christian all-natural man soap😂
How are your boots so clean after walking in there😂
Amazing content, as always.
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Many churches have fallen into a trap that I call “Bethelization” of their worship. I am not criticizing Bethel or their music, but what I am concerned about is that we look at their worship videos (and many others) and think this is the level of expertise that our church must maintain. So we hire staff, establish budgets (and membership goals to support those budgets), put in systems (PAs, click tracks and multitracks), cull our volunteer musicians down to only the most skilled, all to emulate what we see in videos produced by professionals with astronomical budgets. The worship experience on Sunday moves toward performance and entertainment. As a volunteer musician, I have suffered through this transition. If my skills are not up to par, they just turn me down and turn up that instrument in the loop. Can we slow down the ending of a song? No. The click track won’t allow it. Can the leader insert a spontaneous tag or chorus? No. It takes too much re-programming of the set list. Small to medium size churches need to be very wary of what they want to become.