Focus on the Metric

Although it may feel like the least spiritual part of worship leadership, a worship leader and the worship team should take some time to review how a worship service went. What went well, and what can be improved? It would be a shame to repeat missteps unnecessarily. Similarly, it would be a shame to miss opportunities for growth as well as the reinforcement of what went well.

First, Pastor Jolicoeur resists telling you what the specific metrics should be for your worship leading. Your church likely has its own focus, and these focuses can even change over time. Your church likely has a mission statement. It likely has short-term goals for this year, perhaps even this month. The focus can change, and thus the metrics might change.

Here are just a few of the possible metrics you might examine:

• Getting more engagement from the congregation, more active participation in worship
• Getting more people in worship
• Getting more people to make commitments of one kind or another (for Christ, for deeper life, to evangelize, to volunteer, etc)
• Having diversity of music
• Having diversity of representation
• For the congregation to become more loving toward God and others

You have to set the metrics, and you might have two or three of them. You should know what a “successful” worship service should look like in this season. If you cannot tell whether this Sunday was good or not, then the review process is not going to be helpful.

Your metric could be a sentence to measure the service against. It could be your mission statement. Love your church. Love the people in front of you. The specifics of what this looks like may vary.