Podcast Episode #579
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Eric Roberts joins the podcast today to discuss how to build a worship ministry. Eric has created over 300 free videos to help churches raise up skilled worship leaders. Training through Eric’s ministry, worshiptheking.com, includes training on guitars, drums, sound, and much more.
Highlights:
- You don’t have to be a level 10 worship leader, all you need to know are the basics.
- Large and small churches both have the challenge of finding skilled musicians.
- You can build a worship band from the people in your pews.
- Training and resourcing people is life changing.
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Very cool episode! I serve as a bi-vocational pastor in a smaller church that is in active revitalization and it has been very difficult to find candidates to fill the role of music minister/worship leader. I am thankful for a background in music as well as an older gentleman who is still in great voice who splits the duties with me. It is the desire of the older gentleman and myself to find new leadership to move our church in a much more blended direction. It’s nice to be on the same page and have a long-time member see the need to change.
I hope this is not too much of a digression, but I find it disheartening that many (not all!) of Christian colleges and seminaries are not training future generations for realistic ministry in a smaller church or a church that is in revitalization context. I’ve interviewed many candidates and had many conversations with people who “want to serve the local church” but when they interview with a church without a huge budget, older members, the latest gear, band, or lights…they look elsewhere. This just isn’t a “single case” scenario but a conversation that I’ve had with MANY pastors in our area. It’s hard to keep a music leader AND hire one.
To end my digression let me say…I can see this training as a game-changer in the local church. I’m so glad that I heard this podcast because I can already see this as a way to bring out the talent in our local church.
Thank you, Steven!
Tiny caveat: worship and music are not the same thing. Small churches can have vibrant worship even if they have no music. And I have known larger churches that took a music fast in order to emphasize that music can be an aid to worship, but is not in and of itself worship.
If a church’s message cannot be successfully sent and received without music, there may be a larger problem with the message.
As a worship leader in several small churches, this has been a concern of mine for some time. Because of the influence of mega-churches and para-church ministries, expectations of those in the pews has been radically changed. There are so many ways to enhance the worship program that will not break the bank or people. I’ve written about it on my blog. Feel free to ask me questions about how we do it. Pilgrimswaymin@yahoo.com
I like it. Like never-trumpers. Way cool
I’m a worship pastor. We have been doing identical blended services, but my pastor just instructed me to drop drums completely for one service because we need a service that is ‘not loud’. I am devastated that we are now essentially moving to two worship styles and splitting the congregation. How can I best handle this change?