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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