worship pastor

For Jon Tyner, minister of music at Olive Baptist Church, worship and missions go hand in hand. That’s why Tyner and three friends took on the challenge of walking for 24 straight hours to raise money for missions.

I challenge you to engage in true worship. There are three ingredients for true worship in which we all can grow. Learn to use these three principle ingredients for true worship!

Mixing hymns with contemporary worship songs is quite a challenge and back then resources were non-existent. It was a stark choice: hymns vs contemporary worship.

What I have found over the years through consulting and numerous conversations with senior pastors and executive pastors is that they simply don’t know what to ask when hiring a worship pastor.

Larry Flake had been running from the law for 20 years. For 10 of those years, he served as a worship pastor. He has now been arrested for a 2001 sexual assault conviction.

You learn the songs, play the songs, and then leave the stage, right? But as anyone in ministry knows, being a great worship pastor involves being an expert at multiple, highly varied skills.

I recently had the privilege of participating in the Cutting It Straight conference in Jacksonville, led by H.B. Charles Jr. and hosted by Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church. At this conference, I discovered the 13 things pastors wish their worship leaders knew.

For me, being called to ministry as a worship pastor means a calling to so much more than music.