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Chris Tomlin leading worship at Lift 2011 (photo courtesy of @shericarr)
If you missed Lift : A Worship Leader Collective in Atlanta this past weekend – you missed something fantastic. If you wen’t – you understand the “fantastic” appreciation of that word.
Aside from being led in worship by Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman – we also had the chance to hear Chris teach in a break out session that every person tasked with leading worship should hear at least once. In his lesson, Chris defines the difference between a song leader and a worship leader. I wanted to bring home the main talking points and share them with each of you.
- A song leader is worried about performance…
- A worship leader s worried about Presence.
- A song leader is worried about his/her favorites…
- A worship leader is about God‘s favor.
- A song leader thinks it is his/her job…
- A worship leader has it as his/her passion.
- A song leader is about style….
- A worship leader is about Spirit.
- For a song leader…most of the work is done on stage…
- As a worship leader…the least of what is done is on stage.
What distinctions would you share?
Lemme add the most obvious one:
A song leader is about singing.
A worship leader is about worship.
Another one:
A song leader is about drawing people’s attention to him/herself.
A worship leader is about drawing people’s prayers to God.