Pastors Must Be Administrators and Philosophers-part 2

Pastors Must Be Administrators and Philosophers-part 2

            After traveling with a Bible College Symphonic Wind Ensemble and a College Choir for nearly four decades I am convinced that the buck stops with senior pastors when it comes to church music confusion and anarchy. During my travels I became aware that drastic changes in church music ministry may be blamed on the worship leader, choir director etc. but more times than not they are secretly the fault of the pastor.  Senior pastors may blame church music failure on worship leaders, but most of the confusion and unsuccessful leadershift in church music is the direct result of lead pastors” lack of musical understanding and Bible knowledge or music. 

          Lead pastors who believe that it is not necessary to be leaders and administrators need to get rid of this lackluster paradigm.  They must learn to look at pastoring through a much more practical philosophical window.  I am convinced that nothing succeeds very well in a church, including the church’s music ministry, unless it is ultimately endorsed by the lead pastor.  After all, isn’t he or she called the “led pastor”?  The flow of a successful church’s administration is from the top down not vice versa.