Good heart, can't sing. 🤷‍♂️

  Hey, we just started doing live monthly classes in the Worship Ministry Training

Academy, and this is an answer that I gave to a student who asked,

I have a person who likes to sing.

They have a good heart, but a bad voice. What do I do?

So I hope this helps you if you’re in that same situation.

First of all, we’re called to build the team with who God has there currently.

So I’ll just leave that comment there.

The second thing is we also want to put people in their sweet spot.

I remember someone told me, Well, it doesn’t matter

if they’re not a good singer. It’s about the heart.

And I was like, Yeah, but you wouldn’t want a preacher who couldn’t

preach a good sermon or who couldn’t speak well or who stutter constantly.

You wouldn’t put a pastor on stage who can’t do his craft well because

every person in the body of Christ is designed for a specific role.

That’s what scripture teaches.

And so our job as shepherds is to help them find the right role for them.

And we actually might be hindering their growth in their calling, whatever

their actual calling is, by keeping them in a role that they’re not designed for.

We actually should be releasing them to go do the thing that God

has actually called them to do.

With that said, I like the idea that Valerie shared

about the visual part of worship.

I remember Bethel, back when they were first becoming really popular, they

used to have people on stage who didn’t have microphones, and they just stood in

the back and they just worship like that.

And they would just worship visually and pray and you could see them praying.

And that was how they used those visually expressive people was no microphone, but

just be on stage and worship because how you worship the Lord encourages the body.

But because we only have X amount of channels on our board, I need to reserve

the microphones for these singers who are actually gifted to sing better than

God has gifted you to sing, et cetera.

So you could say that or something along those lines.

And then the other thing is, like Valerie said, giving them opportunities to serve

through not singing, through speaking or exhorting, or call to worship, or prayer.

So there are all these slots that we can fit people into, and we want

to fit the people based on their gifting.

And we don’t want to put people into a situation that they’re not called for

and where they’re not going to succeed.

We want people to succeed.

And so I would think through it in those factors.

Right now, if it’s not hurting your team and you don’t have anyone else to replace

them with, then maybe you leave it.

But if they are actually hurting the musical worship, if it’s becoming

a distraction, I would probably talk to them about, Hey, I think

I’d like to change your role on the team.

And one thing you can do is if you have the ability to record the service or

specifically to record their microphone.

Or if you don’t have that ability, do a one-on-one session where you say, Hey,

I want to help you grow in your singing.

Please take your iPhone and press record, and I want you to sing along with me,

and then let’s listen back it together, and I’ll talk you through some of

the areas that you’re doing well and some of the areas that I want you to work on.

And when you do that, that recording does not lie.

But people, when they’re singing, can’t hear their own voice for some reason.

But when they hear it back, it’s like everybody’s worst nightmare

is hearing their own voice.

They’re like, oh, my gosh, I sound like that.

And so what I did the first time, I told you guys, I’m building

my team as fast as possible.

And I grabbed the two best girls singers from the Young Adults Ministry.

And they’re the best we had in the church.

I didn’t even audition them.

I never even heard them sing.

But it was like, this is who I have.

These are the best people in the church, according to everybody.

And so therefore, I’m going to get them involved no matter what,

because God calls us to use who we have, not who we wish we had.

So I’m like, well, if they’re the very best in the church, I’m going

to just get them involved. And so I took everybody’s word for it.

I didn’t even audition them, and I got them on stage singing with me.

And it’s crazy to do that.

I don’t recommend you do that.

But I actually have a video coming out about that soon.

So you guys will hear the whole story.

But what I did was we multitrack our services.

So our setup is capable of recording every channel coming into the sound system.

So we recorded it.

And after service, I sent them their recordings, and I said,

Hey, take a listen to this.

Let me know which areas you think you want to work on.

But yeah, people need to hear themselves.

If you have the capability to multitrack, do that.

Show them how they sound and ask them how you can help them grow.

If If you don’t have that capability, then do the one-on-one meeting and

record their voice with their iPhone singing next to their mouth while you play

the guitar or piano next to them, and then listen back with them and talk

about what you want them to grow in.

Those are just some thoughts, Sam, that I hope helps.

And same with you, Desire.

Desire, I had a girl once who was very good at harmonies.

Not very good, but she was good at harmonies.

But she was so shy on stage that she was awkward and really uncomfortable.

I tried to talk with her about it a few times, but it was so distracting

for the church because she was just in this really awkward position

the whole time she was on stage.

I was like, You know what?

Why don’t I get you involved in the youth band?

I think you’ll feel more comfortable there.

I just redirected her.

So redirecting people based on what you’re seeing in their life and in

their execution of their ministry role is a pretty normal part of being a leader.

So just think about that word redirection.

I hope this answer helped you.

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