Paul Baloche: Ministry to the Lord Before the Setlist

Paul Baloche has been leading worship for over thirty years. He will also tell you there were many, many weeks he never sat down with the Lord on his own, then stood on a platform anyway and said, "Hey guys, let's worship the Lord." 

He borrows his wife's line for it: busyness is the enemy of intimacy. 

Paul wrote "Open the Eyes of My Heart," "Above All," and "Hosanna," and spent twenty five years as worship pastor at one church of a few hundred people while turning down offers from much bigger ones. 

He walks through the actual practice that has kept him steady: a guitar, the book of Psalms, a journal, fifteen minutes some days and an hour on others. 

He also gets honest about grading a Sunday by how many people cried, why he tells young musicians to go serve somebody else's ministry first, and how to tell a younger player you see a calling on them without laying a heavy trip on them. 

If the weekly scramble to get your team ready is eating the part of you that actually wants to worship, that is the part Worship Online takes off your plate. Every instrument, every harmony, learned at home before rehearsal starts: https://worshiponline.com/ 

Mentioned in the Episode 

Yes, We Believe 

Lead Worship 

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