Pastors Must Be Administrators and Philosophers-part 3

Pastors Must Be Administrators and Philosophers-part 3

            How do churches go about resurrecting a dead or dying music ministry?  First of all senior pastors must realize that their laissez-faire attitude toward the appropriateness of the music that is musiced in the worship service and the problems that have occurred as a direct result of their willy-nilly leadershift in music praxis has caused this musical chaos. 

            After reading the first two posts in this series one may believe that the senior pastor must do everything, including directing the church choir and leading the congregational singing.  That is far from what I believe a pastor’s duties include.   The pastor is responsible administratively and philosophically for the church’s prescriptive approach to worshiping with music.  This responsibility will exude from the senior pastor’s knowledge of what the Bible teaches about the inclusion of music in worship.   It will then amalgamate this knowledge with his or her understanding of the fundamentals of music which then is put into practice by the music team. All of the above must fit within the prescriptive parameters of the church’s worship and ministry philosophy and praxis.