Last week the Lakeshore Music team from Lakeshore@9 and Lakeshore@Night got together for a team night. We spent some singing — without all our instruments – praying and reading the Bible together, and we worked on a few new songs. We also looked at a definition of what exactly our job as a Church Music Team is.
I took our definition straight from Bob Kauflin’s excellent book, Worship Matters. This is the best book I’ve read so far on Church Worship, I highly recommend it. The whole definition is listed first, followed by a point by point list with some bible verses that we checked along the way.
So What Does a Church Music Team Do?
“A faithful church music team magnifies the greatness of God in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit by skilfully combining God’s Word with music thereby motivating the gathered church to proclaim the gospel, to cherish God’s presence and to live for God’s glory.”
- A faithful church music team… (1 Cor 4:1-2)
- Magnifies the greatness of God… (Ps 34:3, Ps 145:3)
- In Jesus Christ… (1 Cor 2:2, 2 Cor 4:6, Col 3:17)
- Through the power of the Holy Spirit… (Phil 3:3)
- By Skilfully combining God’s word… (Col 3:16)
- With music… (Eph 5:19)
- Thereby motivating the gathered church… (Heb 10:25)
- To Proclaim the gospel… (1 Pet 2:9, Ps 96:2)
- To cherish God’s presence… (Eph 2:22, Matt 18:20, Ps 105:4, also Ps 139:7-8, Gal 2:20)
- And to live for God’s glory… (2 Cor 3:18)
Bob Kauflin also has a helpful blog at http://www.worshipmatters.com/
