Advice for Worship Leaders #7 - How to lead a bible study with your worship team - Part 4

How to lead a bible study with your worship team - Part 4
My final few tips on what to do for your worship team bible study

• All take a bible class/chorus together: this one is a lot of fun to do.
  • Pros’:
    • When you’re altogether attending a separate building for a few weeks or months for a bible class it really forms a time of community that your team will rally around.
    • If you’re not able to attend a bible class you can get a class on CD or DVD and listen/watch it together as a team. The hard thing about this is that most teachings are 45 minutes to an hour long which wouldn’t leave much time for discussion.
       
  • Con’s:
    • It might be hard to get everyone’s schedules lined up to all attend the same class.
    • Those who aren’t able to attend the class could feel left out in the discussion time. But this can turn into a “pro” by you asking different team members to fill them in on what was shared at class that week.
       
• Go through the purity covenant: This is something I try and do at least once a year and is super practical and applies to everyone’s daily life. The covenant is simple and contains seven things that each person commits to in the realm of purity (You can find the covenant on www.mikebickle.org)
  • Pro’s:
    • Facilitates people to personally plumb line their life in a fresh way to pursuing purity.
    • Deepens relationship because you’re talking about a pretty deep issue that everyone in the room can relate to in one shape or form.
    • Take time to pray and share communion after you all commit to the covenant. This is a very bonding experience. 
  • Con’s:
    • I didn’t really experience any with this
       
• Random weeks: if you pay attention to your team’s discussions that happen in briefings and debriefings you will be surprised at how many conversations come up that are actually deep and meaningful things that you could take a whole bible study and expound on them. One example of this happening with my team was at the end of a debriefing when a conversation started about “partnership development” and raising support as intercessory missionaries. I instantly knew that this was a “hot topic” and a lot of people had thoughts on it and it’d be really helpful to set aside an hour of discussion on this specific topic. I let the conversation go for a few minutes in debriefing but then said “we’re going to talk about this at bible study this week” (whatever we were previously going to discuss I put on hold). These types of random topics and discussions happen fairly regularly so be watching for them.

© 2011 Justin Rizzo