Re: Are The Local Churches Growing?
Music ministry must have been mightily used and very important since Paul calls for those that meet to also bring a hymn or a Psalm. Our problem with it today is, probably, the use of music to gain celebrity status and make ridiculously large sums of money while satisfying a craving for adulation from others within. BUT...this happens to some degree with those who speak as well. Even in the LC there are "those saints" who have the gift of expounding and are overly eager to use it each and every single meeting. I have never agreed that there should be a full time MUSIC minister but have no problem with a full timer who also desires to prophesy, teach, and shepherd through music...as long as the scent of desire for adulation is not there.
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