Here are eight ways to be the “odd person out” on a team:

Be resistant to every change. Whenever a new idea is presented, always be the first to say it
won’t work. You don’t have to have a reason. Just oppose it.

Always be negative—about everything. See the glass half-empty. Always. There’s nothing
good about this place—leader—idea—day—life.

Always have an excuse. It’s not your fault. It’s someone else’s fault. Always.

Never have the solution. It’s your job to point out problems, not to help solve them. In fact, you
don’t care to build—you’re here to tear down. And, you intend to do your job well.

Hold opinions until after something isn’t working well. Make sure everyone knows you were
opposed to the idea from the start. You can clearly see how things should have been done. And,
you make sure everyone knows.

Talk behind people’s back, rather than going to the source—it stirs more drama if you talk
about someone rather than to someone. Of course, you talk behind the leader’s back too, though
you’re usually extremely pleasant in their presence.

Refuse to participate in any team social activities. Who needs them, right? Why would you
want to hang out with people you work with? You might get to know them—and they might get
to know you.

Don’t buy into the vision. And, actually, this translates into working against the vision. You
may even have a vision of your own.

Of course, these are written with a hint of sarcasm, but these people distance themselves from
others on the team by the way they respond on the team. Have you ever worked with anyone like
this?

As you read the list, do you spot the “odd person out” on your team?

It should be noted, this doesn’t mean these are bad people. Many times, I’ve learned, these
people were injured in some way previously. It could have been on the job or in their personal
life. They may have been passed over for a promotion or they began to feel taken advantage of in
some way. They may have social disorders which need to be addressed. They may just really be
negative about their own life and bring this attitude into their professional life. Often,
understanding why they feel as they do can help address their performance on the team.

I should also note, I’m not advocating always agreeing with a team. It’s OK to have different
opinions, challenge the system—and even the leader. Differing viewpoints help make us all
better. The key is to do so in a spirit of cooperation, not a spirit of disruption. You don’t have to
be the odd person out—even if you’re different from everyone else. In fact, don’t be.
1. Tidak tahan terhadap setiap perubahan. Setiap kali ide baru yang disajikan,
selalu menjadi yang pertama untuk mengatakan itu tidak akan berhasil. Anda
tidak harus memiliki alasan. Hanya menentangnya.
2. Selalu negatif-tentang segala sesuatu. Melihat gelas setengah kosong. Selalu.
Tidak ada yang baik tentang ini tempat-pemimpin-ide-hari kehidupan.
3. Selalu memiliki alasan. Itu bukan salahmu. Ini kesalahan orang lain. Selalu.
4. Tidak pernah ada solusinya. Itu tugas Anda untuk menunjukkan masalah,
tidak untuk membantu menyelesaikannya. Bahkan, Anda tidak peduli untuk
membangun-kau di sini untuk meruntuhkan. Dan, Anda berniat untuk
melakukan pekerjaan Anda dengan baik.
5. Menahani pendapat sampai setelah sesuatu yang tidak bekerja dengan baik.
Pastikan semua orang tahu Anda menentang ide dari awal. Anda dapat
dengan jelas melihat bagaimana hal-hal seharusnya sudah dilakukan. Dan,
Anda memastikan semua orang tahu.
6. Berbicara di belakang orang, daripada pergi ke sumber-itu membangkitkan
lebih banyak drama jika Anda berbicara tentang seseorang daripada
seseorang. Tentu saja, Anda berbicara di belakang pemimpin juga, meskipun
Anda biasanya sangat menyenangkan di hadapan mereka.
7. Menolak untuk berpartisipasi dalam setiap tim kegiatan sosial. Siapa yang
butuh mereka, kan? Mengapa Anda ingin bergaul dengan orang-orang yang
bekerja dengan Anda? Anda mungkin mengenal mereka-dan mereka
mungkin mengenal Anda.
8. Tidak menerima visi. Dan, sebenarnya, ini diterjemahkan ke dalam bekerja
melawan visi. Anda bahkan mungkin memiliki visi Anda sendiri.
Tentu saja, ini ditulis dengan sedikit sarkasme, tapi orang-orang ini menjauhkan diri dari
orang lain di tim dengan cara mereka merespon pada tim. Apakah Anda pernah bekerja
dengan orang seperti ini?
Saat Anda membaca daftar, Anda melihat "orang aneh keluar" di tim Anda?
Perlu dicatat, ini tidak berarti ini adalah orang jahat. Banyak kali, saya telah belajar,
orang-orang ini terluka dalam beberapa cara sebelumnya. Itu bisa saja pada pekerjaan
atau dalam kehidupan pribadi mereka. Mereka mungkin telah melewati untuk promosi
atau mereka mulai merasa dimanfaatkan dalam beberapa cara. Mereka mungkin memiliki
gangguan sosial yang perlu ditangani. Mereka mungkin hanya benar-benar negatif
tentang kehidupan mereka sendiri dan membawa sikap ini ke dalam kehidupan
profesional mereka. Seringkali, memahami mengapa mereka merasa seperti yang mereka
lakukan dapat membantu mengatasi kinerja mereka di tim.
Saya juga harus mencatat, Saya tidak menganjurkan selalu setuju dengan tim. Ini OK
untuk memiliki pendapat yang berbeda, menantang sistem-dan bahkan pemimpin. Sudut
pandang yang berbeda membantu membuat kita semua lebih baik. Kuncinya adalah untuk
melakukannya dalam semangat kerjasama, bukan semangat gangguan. Anda tidak perlu
menjadi orang aneh keluar-bahkan jika Anda berbeda dari orang lain. Bahkan, jangan.
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Before we move on let’s look at four foundational principles of biblical worship. Understanding
these principles gives us a correct perspective for leading worship.

1. Worship must be done in love. “If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not
have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophesy, and
know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do
not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender
my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.” 1 Co.r 13:1-3

2. Worship is always accompanied by humility and reverent fear. Isaiah 66:2 describes it this
way: “All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord.

 But this is the one to whom I will look: He who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles
at my word.”

3. God commands us to worship. Worship is not an optional activity for the believer. The Bible
is filled with scripture commanding us to worship. “Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing
will be on your food and water.” Exodus 23:25 “All nations whom thou hast made shall come
and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.” Psalm 86:9

4. Worship involves surrendering your entire life to God. “So here’s what I want you to do,
God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work and
walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you
is the best thing you can do for him.” Romans 12:1-2

Here are 13 things you should think about when leading worship. Leading worship, for me, starts
when I leave my house and ends when I get in my car to come home.

1. Think About Magnifying God

Avoid substituting Worshipping God for Worshipping Art forms and performance by
remembering the foundational principles of worship. Worship is about God not us! This will
eliminate self-promotion. “O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.”
Psalm 34:3 “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3

2. Think About Others

The second part of the Great Commandment is to love your neighbor. It is so important to have
love for others on your mind as you lead worship. Consider these verses: “So let us then
definitely aim for and eagerly pursue what makes for harmony and for mutual up building
(edification and development) of one another.” Romans 14:9 “Let all things be done for building
up.” 1 Cor. 14:26b “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are
doing.” 1 Th. 5:11 “We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak,
and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up”
Romans 15 “To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to
all people, that by all means I might save some. 1 Cor. 9:22

3. Think About Recruiting

Watch the crowd … look for musicians. Greet your congregation before and after the service.
One of the primary roles for the worship leader is to be the Manager of God’s Musical (Artistic)
resources in the church and give opportunity for others to use their gifts in worship! Romans
12:6 says, “Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them.” Rather
than asking people to come and help me do my thing using phrases like: “Oh please help us.” Or
“We need help.” I offer opportunities for people to use their gifts for God. Most of the time,
people are interested in opportunities that benefit them personally. There is NOTHING more
fulfilling than using your gifts for the glory of God.

4. Think About Excellence

Always give your best … physically, spiritually and musically. When we are well prepared we
are more available to people and not tied to the “score.” Plan for excellence. You cannot be
better than your material so choose service elements wisely and program them well.

I think about excellence but I don’t worship it. Excellence is a good value but not the goal of a
worship service. Connection is the goal! The Bible is filled with verses about giving your best.
Romans 12:8 says it like this: “If we are leaders we should do our best.”

5. Think About Thanksgiving, Praise and Joy

Worship needs to be enthusiastic. Enthusiasm has nothing to do with volume preference. All
hymns were not written to be sung slowly and certainly none without passion. Tempo and
dynamics are often thought of as synonymous … but they are not. Further, a slow song does not
have to be void of energy. For that matter fast songs don’t have to be loud. The point is that
every song used in Christian worship should be presented from a heart of thanksgiving, praise
and joy. “Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!” Psalm 97:12
“I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God.” Isa. 61:10

6. Think About the Holy Spirit Leading

“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord Almighty—you will succeed
because of My Spirit, though you are few and weak.” —Zechariah 4:6 TLB

Listen to the voice of God while leading worship. The Holy Spirit is the BEST worship leader.
Moses and Aaron relied on the leading of God for their ministry. God said to Moses, “Talk to
him (Aaron), and put the words in his mouth. I will be with both of you as you speak, and I will
instruct you both in what to do.” Exodus 4:15 And Jesus said: “But the hour is coming, and is
now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is
seeking such people to worship him.” John 4:23

7. Think About Authenticity

Personalize the lyrics. Love and live the Word. Pray the songs. Enter into worship (don’t get lost
in it while you are leading) and be the lead worshiper. Jesus teaches us not to be like the
hypocrites who love to stand up and pray in the houses of worship and on the street corners, so
that everyone will see them. (Matthew 6:5 and James 1:22 exhort us to not merely listen to the
word and so deceive ourselves but do what it says.) A worship leader is not merely performing
but living the message. None of us are perfect but all of us can be honest and sincere; sinners in
love with a merciful Savior. All believers are trophies of God’s grace. Consider this verse: “I
have found David a man after God’s own heart. He will do everything I want him to do.” Acts
13:22 (1 Sam. 13:14) (for more refer to Romans 12:1)

8. Think About Navigating the Unexpected Moments

Be ready for the last minute and unplanned moments and use them for God’s glory … making
the most of every opportunity! These moments can be carrying out a change of worship plan
without anyone noticing. It could mean transitioning the attention of the crowd from a noticeable
“snag” in the service back to God. Strings breaking, missed cues, the fire alarm going off all can
be used as opportunities for ministry that enhance a live worship service.

The old saying “when you get bumped the real you spills out” applies here. People, especially
skeptics, love seeing the real you. The key in navigating the unexpected (even more important
than experience) is prayer. “Devote yourselves to PRAYER, keeping ALERT in it with an
attitude of thanksgiving.” Col. 4:2

9. Think About Managing Chaos

I think about managing chaos when I am leading worship. Isn’t that weird? This is similar but
distinct from Navigating the Moments. Being able to navigate the moments is very helpful to
managing chaos (review Col. 4:2). Knowing how to deal with Chaos is very helpful to the
worship leader. Again experience is helpful here, but wisdom is the key to Managing Chaos. In 1
Kings 3:10, God said to Solomon: “I am pleased you asked for this. You could have asked to live
a long time or to be rich. Or you could have asked for your enemies to be destroyed. Instead you
asked for WISDOM to make right decisions.” The best way to Manage Chaos (Chaos distracts so
much from connecting people to God and drains joy out of the team) is to stay one step ahead of
it and make right decisions calmly, clearly and confidently. Always value people more than the
program. Be personal and professional but the greatest of these is personal. LOVE as you lead.

10.Think About Urgency

What you do REALLY matters. It is truly a matter of life and death. People all around us are
dying without Jesus. This is the worst human disaster on the planet. People need the Lord.
Consider the words of Paul in 1 Cor. 9:16-23: “For I take no special pride in the fact that I preach
the Gospel. I feel compelled to do so; I should be utterly miserable if I failed to preach it. … For
though I am no man’s slave, yet I have made myself everyone’s slave, that I might win more
men to Christ. … I have, in short, been all things to all sorts of men that by every possible means
I might win some to God. I do all this for the sake of the Gospel; I want to play my part in it
properly.” He goes on to compare our life of ministry to a race that we are trying to win! “I run
the race then with determination. I am no shadow-boxer, I really fight! I am my body’s sternest
master, for fear that when I have preached to others I should myself be disqualified” (1 Cor. 9:
26-27). Jesus speaks of his Father’s heart for his children in Matthew 18:14: “He doesn’t want
any of these little ones to be lost.”

We have a job to do … it matters … and we may not get a second chance with some people.

11.Think About Servant Leadership

This was Jesus’ model: “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count
others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but
also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be
grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of
death, even death on a cross. (Phil. 2:3-8)

Please refer to Matthew 20:25-28 where Jesus taught servant leadership.

One of my favorite verses regarding servant leadership is Romans 12:10: “Be good friends who
love deeply, practice playing second fiddle.”

12.Think About Involving the Crowd

Throughout the Bible there is an emphasis on THEY worshipped. Worship at church needs to be
participatory. There is a difference between an Artist and a Worship Leader. An Artist IS the
fire. A Worship leader LIGHTS the fire.

A great way to get a crowd to participate is to ask them to participate. I don’t think asking is
offensive. For example, if you ask the crowd to clap their hands to the music, they might do it. If
they don’t respond, just be patient and ask again. Don’t get frustrated with the crowd; be
nurturing. If you speak their cultural language you have a better chance of getting a positive
response. Learning how to ask is like learning a language. They may be ready to respond but are
not responding because they don’t understand what they are being asked. Funny … sometimes
we think that if we talk louder and slower to people that speak a different language than we do,
our words will eventually be understood. That does not work! Most of the time when attenders
are not involved in a worship service it is because they have simply not been invited to
participate. The bible says in Isaiah 44:23 to “tell the heavens and the earth to start singing! Tell
the mountains and every tree in the forest to join in the song. The Lord has rescued His people …
now they will worship him.”
Again the bible emphasizes THEY worshipped. When Jesus sang in the upper room he sang with
his disciples. If anyone could have asked for a solo, Jesus could have … but it was recorded that
“they” sang a hymn. Don’t be afraid to ask the crowd to participate and be sure to create
opportunities for their involvement in the service.

13.Think About Changed Lives

This is very similar to URGENCY. When you lead, sing to the lost, hurting and broken. In every
worship service there are people present with genuine needs. Ask God to help you encourage,
comfort, serve and communicate the Good News to His precious children especially the lost,
hurting and broken. Ask your team to envision God using them to minister to God’s children.
Pray for attendees, volunteers, staff and the speaker.

In conclusion, when pastors ask me how I can have so much energy and engage the crowd in
worship consistently, my first thought is that God is using me and that is what energizes me. I
look at what I do as much more than music.

I love music and art … but I LOVE God! Serving the Lord through the Great Commission and
the Great Commandment is extremely fulfilling. My second thought, when asked about my
worship leading, is that I think about these 13 things, as a matter of habit, every time I lead
worship: Magnifying God, Others, Recruiting, Excellence, Thanksgiving, Holy Spirit Leading,
Authenticity, Navigating the Moments, Managing Chaos, Urgency, Servant Leadership,
Involving The Crowd and Changed Lives. This is a lot to think about when leading worship, but
as we practice them eventually they become second nature. Remember that leading worship is

M.O.R.E. T.H.A.N. M.U.S.I.C. ………..