5 ways to immediately improve your worship leading 

0:08 1. Open your eyes 2:27 2. Read scripture in your service 5:09 3. Put your songs in a key the church can sing in 8:17 4. Think through the service in advance 11:31 5. Read a worship leading book Since Spencer is so loquacious (jk 😂) here’s the TLDR! But speaking of how much impact 15 minutes can have (great video), if someone doesn’t have but a couple then they can dive into one specific point you made and still walk away edified!

Amazing advice, brother! What church do you serve at, I'd love to watch your services!

Very practical!

Absolutely! Corporate worship is just that, Corporate Worship. Be one of many and many of one. By closing your eyes you put a hole in the connection between yourself and the people of the Church. It makes it a little uncomfortable in some ways. It's like you have some following with their eyes closed and some looking around as if they were unsure of what to do? This has been my experience and what I felt. I am not saying it's wrong or anything like that. Just my opinion. God bless.

I know key choice will always be a point of disagreement amongst worship leaders, and you happen to fall on the opposite side of the argument than I do, in a couple ways. I lead with multiple vocalists and none of us sing in the same range. I sing in a tenor range and a lot of women sing well in my range and our main female lead sings songs about 2-2 1/2 steps higher in an alto which most men sing an octave down very well. We also have a low baritone vocalist and a few sopranos. There are rarely songs we all would sing in the same key comfortably without using harmony. I grew up playing in a worship band that always put songs in “congregational keys” and I grew up thinking I just couldn’t sing, I always had to sing the high parts low and the low parts high and felt awkward so I didn’t sing often. In that church, we had a lot of men that didn’t sing and often they stood stoically during worship (good ol’ conservative baptists). People like to blame it on the key, but we catered to them and still didn’t get much more from that group. I think most of the songs sounded bland and it removed a lot of the musicality from the songs. I think corporate worship through songs should create a whole person response to God, meaning it taps into the intellectual, emotional, spiritual and physical parts of us and we are united as one body through words, rhythms and melody to worship together. I guess what I take issue with is that you keep making this argument about keys every 7-8 videos but my experiences have been quite different. If I were running my own worship support channel/business, I would not list this as a priority to improving congregation worship at all, I would neither advocate “singer choice” or “congregation based keys”. I think once you go down that road, you could pick out lots of things to make congregation participation better like what tone and timber of vocals can a congregation follow, what rhythms are easier for a congregation to follow, should lyrics that are complex theologically be allowed, too many words, too fast/slow tempos…. You could moderate all things to the lowest common denominator to make worship singing easy and accessible but I don’t think it is necessary (to be fair, all of those things are often a factor in worship song writing, as are the keys and range). I feel like you keep picking this one aspect of musicality to focus on - most of your content is not based on musicality and more on other aspects of improving worship - and it is weird that it is often mentioned.