A Church Music Director’s Handbook (paperback)

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This book is about helping you sharpen your theology, define your role and vision, and build your team … at the same time as dealing with the day to day reality of music ministry – wrangling with flakey guitarists, practising hostage negotiation with the sound guys, and responding to 40 page complaint emails with grace.

Description

Volume 1: Theology, Vision and Team Building

By Greg Cooper, Steve Crain, Andy Judd and Mark Peterson

You are a music director. Maybe you are paid a few days a week; probably you are doing this for the love. Either way, it’s a huge job. And it’s an important job – one which requires you to have your head around both the contentious theology of worship music, and the musical and relational challenges of building a team of creative people.

This book is about helping you sharpen your theology, define your role and vision, and build your team … at the same time as dealing with the day to day reality of music ministry – wrangling with flakey guitarists, practising hostage negotiation with the sound guys, and responding to 40 page complaint emails with grace.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: The worship drama
  • Chapter Two: Saved worship is not saving worship
  • Biblical words for worship
  • Chapter Three: What kind of music does God like?
  • Chapter Four: What is the role of the Music Director?
  • Chapter Five: What should a music team culture look like?
  • Chapter Six: Is music ministry really about music?
  • Taking feedback
  • Chapter Seven: Team building
  • The five dot-points of good feedback
  • Chapter Eight: Auditions and skill levels
  • Chapter Nine: Emotional manipulation
  • Chapter Ten: The lessons of history





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