exhortation

My daughter, Nicky, asked me the other day for some tips on how to lead worship. Apparently she had been asked by her pastoral leader to lead their prayer group into worship during a forthcoming prayer meeting.

I know the feeling of anxiety when someone is asked to lead others into worship. Many years ago (several decades actually) when I was first invited to do this, I felt confident I knew what to do; after all, I had seen many others do it before, and I thought it was just a simple matter of saying a few opening statements, and then cut into singing and jubilant praise and have the music ministry take over. In other words, I didn’t prepare.