"Am I in over my head?"  

I know what it feels like to question whether you have what it takes to pastor and lead your team.

I remember moving to Charlotte in 2007 to help build Elevation Worship and not knowing anyone in the city, so I had to ask friends from my hometown of Columbia to drive in just so we would have a full roster. But as the church grew rapidly, and we added more and more people to the team, I had a new challenge – how do I actually lead these people to not just be great musicians, but to actually love Jesus and love serving in church. I quickly realized that while I knew how to lead a 4 song worship set, I felt very unqualified to actually lead and pastor people. Before my time at Elevation, no one had taught me that being a Worship Pastor was much more about serving off the platform than performing on it.

Being a worship leader didn't fulfill me like I thought it would.

I used to think worship ministry was all about chasing my dreams of leading songs and writing music and being on albums. But no one told me that none of those dreams would be what truly brought fulfillment or defined success. 

In our current worship culture, it’s easy to look on Instagram and think that your success is based on how well you perform - whether that’s your vocal ability on a Sunday or your follower count on social media. It’s tempting to think you are only successful if you go on tour or release an album.

But while those may be tools God gives some churches to reach people, it isn’t the measure of true success or fulfillment in ministry.

When the going gets tricky, you need a guide.

Here’s the challenge. There is great training available for you to grow in your understanding of God’s word and to help you gain a theology for worship. There is a lot of very helpful practical training for how to lead a song on a Sunday, or teaching you how to implement effective systems for rostering your team, and there are videos and courses on how to write worship songs. But . . . 

• Who's teaching you how to have hard conversations when you have to tell one of your vocalists that they aren’t ready to lead out on a song yet and do it in a way that doesn’t paralyze you or demoralize them in the process?
• Who is teaching you how to stop leading from a place of insecurity because you believe the lie that you are too young to lead people or too old to be relevant anymore?
• Who is teaching you how to have a candid and strong relationship with your senior pastor?

• Who is teaching you how to build a legacy of character and a posture of intimacy with God?

While there are some great seminaries and programs that allow you to spend years focused on wholistic development as a Pastor, that takes time and money that you may not currently have. You may already be on the job and unable to stop everything and enter into a college program, or you don’t have $15K to spend per semester to enter into a worship program there.

The tensions will be the same in any season.

• How do you submit your ego and pride and lead from a confident, calm and selfless place that keeps your heart and the heart of your team centered on what really matters – worshiping Jesus and building His Church?

• How do you pastor people in a fast-paced and growing ministry and help them be confident in who God has called them to be when you aren’t very confident yourself most days?
• How do you actually empower people on your team to do what God has called them to do when you feel like it takes more time to stop and train them so you just revert back to doing things yourself?
• How do you stop leading from a place of comparing yourself to every other worship leader or ministry, and become comfortable in your own skin and content with your assignment?
• How do you stop seeing yourself as a performer, and start walking your calling as a pastor?
   

That’s what my new course, Performer To Pastor: Level Up From Leading Songs To Serving People, is all about.

I have downloaded all the most important lessons I have learned in Worship Ministry in the 3 modules and 13 videos in this course. Each module is centered around helping you answer a question that leads toward transformation.

Fully embrace your calling.

I’ve packed a lot into Performer to Pastor because I want you to love and embrace the calling of being a Worship Pastor.

And to make it a no-brainer deal for you, I’m giving you a 60-day 100% money-back guarantee with your purchase of Performer To Pastor today.

That’s right! Go through the course, check out the bonuses, follow the steps, put in the work, and if you don’t love it in the first 60 days of your purchase, send me an email, and I’ll refund you immediately. No questions asked, no hard feelings.

Also, if you sign up for Performer to Pastor  today you’ll receive this exclusive bonus:

• Access to a private Slack channel where everyone enrolled in Performer to Pastor will be able to connect and learn from one another. I will also be in the group weekly hosting Q&A’s to answer your questions and cheer you on! - A $300 value!

The way I see it, you have two options.

Option 1 - You invest in yourself, take this course, and apply what you learn. After a few months you are actually finding joy and fulfillment, not only during the 20 minutes you lead worship on Sunday, but also in the other 10,060 minutes during the week. Things aren’t always easy and there are tough decisions to make, but you make those decisions because you care about your team and love watching them grow and flourish in their walk with God and in their giftedness. You are becoming the culture that you are building, and are more confident in where you are leading your team even during the difficult seasons that are necessary for growth. You enjoy a healthy and honoring relationship with your church leadership as you steward their vision well and they give you more and more trust as a result.

Option 2, you can continue to learn the lessons in this course on your own, the slow way, and live life overwhelmed and dread the rest of the week as soon as you stop off-stage leading worship. You can continue to watch yourself and your team be defensive when anyone comes in and threatens your positions. You can continue to feel aimless and scattered with no direction on how to lead your team practically or spiritually. You can continue to live in tension with your senior church leadership. You can continue to feel so stressed on a Sunday morning that you don’t have anything to give your church or your team. You can continue to feel like an imposter who is a good singer but a bad leader.