#3.  Vulnerability

I am always drawn to worship leaders who show vulnerability, rather than total assuredness. Most worship leaders who I know take the role very seriously and feel a deep sense of burden as they stare at a blank piece of paper before beginning to craft the service.

A polished performer never impacts me. I may be impressed by a polished, slick worship leader with all the right segways and guitar licks, but never moved. A vulnerable worship leader impacts me, and I am drawn to join them on a journey of emptying myself before my Creator, and bringing nothing of my own confidence into a corporate worship experience.

I don’t mind worship leaders who in their obvious passion and vulnerability, make mistakes. I’d rather that than a polished performer who can smooth it up like the best real estate salespeople on the planet.

Vulnerable means genuine, and genuine means I’m listening, I’m participating.