Worship Online Podcast (For Worship Leaders)

A hole on the platform is easier to fix than a hole in your team's culture. 

Keith Elgin learned that one the hard way, and he made a list of the other nine things he wishes every worship leader knew. 

You'll get his case for why your worship ministry doesn't need its own vision, only a clear read on your church's. Why the hard conversation you're avoiding right now becomes next year's crisis. And why eventually you shouldn't be the best musician in the room, plus how insecurity quietly keeps you there. 

He also pushes on the line most leaders repeat but don't act on: Sunday reveals your team's culture, it doesn't create it. Preparation, communication, and formation happen Monday through Saturday or they don't happen at all.  

In addition to hosting The Worship Online Podcast, Keith leads worship at his local church, coaches other worship teams, and created the Worship Journal. 

If Monday through Saturday is where the real work happens, Worship Online gives your team a way to actually do it: every part learned at home before rehearsal, so you can spend your time on people instead of parts. Take a look at https://worshiponline.com/ 
 

Mentioned in the Episode 

Alive Church 

The Worship Journal 

 

If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast. 

Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com! 

The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

The song that broke him out is called Slow Me Down.
He posted it on Instagram, and his life hasn't been the same since. Which is a strange thing to build a career on, because everything about a platform says go faster.
Charles Weems is 23. He started leading worship at 14, and he still leads Sundays at a church of about 100 to 150 people while he travels the rest of the week.
In this conversation he talks about the year and a half he spent setting up sound gear in a middle school with one other guy, and the complaining that went with it.
He explains how to receive a prophetic word without wearing it like a crown you never take off.
And he gives the most honest answer to comparison we've heard: someone can be on a stage in front of a million people and be out of God's will, while you lead ten people and are exactly where He asked you to be.
If you're the one doing setlists, charts, and setup alone, Worship Online gives your team a way to show up already knowing their parts. Learn more at https://worshiponline.com/
 
Mentioned In This Episode
Slow Me Down
 
If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast. 

Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com! 

The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

She got to her sister's apartment right behind the paramedics. She prayed with more faith than she had ever felt in her life, and the miracle didn't come.
Bethany Wohrle kept leading worship anyway. Then she opened a note on her phone, wrote down every angry, honest thing she was feeling, and that note became the bridge of a song.
Inside: Josh Baldwin's yellow light analogy that changed how she leads a room, the older man who could only lift his hands to his shoulders and felt God for the first time, and how she tells whether what she is carrying on stage is for her or for the congregation.
Bethany has been with Bethel Music since 2018, served as a worship pastor in Texas, and now lives in Nashville, where her album Reason That I Sing was born out of her family's loss.
Weeks like hers are heavy enough without wondering if your team knows their parts. Worship Online gets every player and vocalist their exact part before rehearsal, so you have room to actually lead. https://worshiponline.com/
 
Mentioned in the Episode 

The Reason That I Sing 

John Wilds
 

If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast. 

Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com! 

The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

"You don't ever need to get up there and feel like, I got this."
That's DOE Jones on leading worship, and she means it as a good thing.
She grew up a pastor's kid, earned Grammy nominations with her family group Forever Jones, spent 12 years in youth ministry, and just made a record called Shiloh with three generations of her family on it.
In this conversation she unpacks what she calls posturing yourself like a landing strip: the space between having prepared hard and still asking God mid-set if he wants to change direction, while the click is in your ear and your MD is cracking jokes.
She also names the thing most of us won't say out loud, that quiet pull to build a worship culture where everyone looks and thinks like you.
And she asks who picked up the baton Israel Houghton left, plus how to tell real cultural bridge-building from borrowing a sound because it's popular right now.
Preparation is what buys you the freedom to actually listen mid-song. If your team is still learning parts at rehearsal, Worship Online gets everyone Sunday-ready before they walk in: https://worshiponline.com/
Mentioned in this Episode
Shiloh
If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast. 

Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com! 

The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.

He gave the stage away on purpose. He still says it hurt more than he expected. 

Heath Michael Bottomly led worship for years before moving into senior leadership, and he is honest about what happened when the platform went away: he had no idea how much of his identity was sitting on it. 

You'll hear the one regret a mentor handed him about holding onto the stage too long, why churches keep hiring an artist when they think they are hiring a pastor, and what changes when a leader's real job becomes clearing roadblocks so the team can run. 

He also pushes back on how most of us talk about worship, arguing your weekend song selection was never meant to carry the weight of a life lived worshipfully. 

Heath is executive pastor over creative teams at Pure Heart Church in Arizona, director of the Experience Conference, and author of Unimaginable. 

If you're carrying Sunday mostly alone, prep is one weight you can actually hand off. Worship Online gives your whole team the exact parts to learn at home, so rehearsal becomes refining instead of reteaching. Start at https://worshiponline.com/ 

 

Mentioned in the Episode 

Experience Conference 

Unimaginable 

Pure Heart Church 

 

If you like what you hear, please leave us a review! Also, shoot us an e-mail at podcast@worshiponline.com. We want to know how we can better serve you and your church through this podcast. 

Don't forget to sign up for your FREE 2-week subscription to Worship Online at WorshipOnline.com! 

The Worship Online Podcast is produced by Worship Online in Nashville, TN.