Worship Musician Magazine September 2020 | Page 52

you’ve been around the best of the best, you’ve
been doing this for so many years and you’ve
had a tremendous amount of success. And
you can always kind of tell the guys who are
reaching for it. I don’t want to be that person,
I’m already approved, I’m already accepted,
so what more do I need? I need to encourage
others, and I can only do that if I really have self
worth for myself.
[WM] I was drawn to your heading, “Awkward
is a gift”. I awkwardly want to know about this…
[Chad] Why are we trying to be like everybody
else? One of the great things about God is He
looks at Abraham and says, “I will bless you,
and you will be a blessing.” In other words what
He’s saying is, I didn’t make you one way to
use you another way. The blessing is on you
and who you are. It’s kind of why the Christian
horoscope has gone crazy, the Enneagram has
gone crazy, because people at the end of the
day, whether they’re a One or a Three or a Five
or a Seven, whatever they are they want to be
comfortable and they want someone to give
them a pass that they don’t have to change.
Life is about getting comfortable in your own
skin, discovering your unique gift, and playing
that role to the best of your ability. So if you’re
awkward, God made you in a specific way and
we need you, it’s called the Body of Christ. By
itself a hand might look weird, or an eye or an
ear, but we need every part of the body, every
function, every single piece and portion of the
body, so it is a gift not a curse.
[WM] From the worship leader’s viewpoint,
how do we become “follow-able”?
[Chad] I think the first thing that we need to do,
is we need to understand that we are followers.
I follow the real hero, I follow the big guy. I’m
not the big guy, I am not the leader, there in
another master. Worship leading is pointing
people to somebody else. Worship leading is
not getting people to praise me, but getting
people to praise God. I always think that with
the best worship leaders I’ve ever seen, you
kind of forget that they’re leading. You can tell
that they don’t want the glory, they are the lead
worshipper, not the worship leader. In order
to be follow-able I’ve got to give people the
authentic impression that I’m not into myself,
I’m actually about somebody else.
[WM] When it comes to opinions – the problem
is that everyone has one. How do worship team
leaders balance the power of opinions?
[Chad] The thing about opinions is that they’re
great, they just never change anyone. I’ve
never heard that, “so-and-so’s opinion of me
changed my life!” Shame, guilt, condemnation,
that doesn’t change anyone, love changes
people. It’s His kindness that leads me to
change. I think my opinion in church, especially
with worship leaders, is that my opinion
doesn’t matter unless I’m talking with someone
who can do something with my opinion. So
if I have an opinion about the song list, or if I
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