Comments on: Musicians for the Churches: Reflections on Vocation and Formation http://cardiphonia.org/2009/04/25/musicians-for-the-churches-reflections-on-vocation-and-formation/ The Word transformed: Prayer, Song, and Art for the Beauty of the Church Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:28:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: RJ http://cardiphonia.org/2009/04/25/musicians-for-the-churches-reflections-on-vocation-and-formation/#comment-22 Tue, 05 May 2009 19:29:40 +0000 http://cardiphonia.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-22 Cool stuff, and the only thing I would add is the need, post-seminary, for churches to recognize that a “worship pastor” that is focused on music and the arts is a valuable and vital thing. I’ve spoken with too many pastors in our sphere that assume such a thing is unnecessary, a luxury, not biblical, sends the “wrong message” to people or for whatever reason is beyond the comprehension of their view of the church.

I was encouraged last year in talking with a west-coast church planter in a very liberal area who had built into his budgeting the need to hire a full-time worship pastor in year 3 (their 3rd full-time hire).

Hopefully this will change sooner rather than later. In another conversation I had recently with a pastor, he mentioned how much more important it is to teach theology (verses simply ‘doing some good music’). I told him yes, theology is important – but worship is what we’ll be doing for eternity, so I think teaching that is fairly important too :) Fortunately he had a good humor about it and agreed!

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