Assessing the Top 5 Worship Songs List

This week I put up a list of "The Top 5 Worship Songs From the Past 10 Years."  Actually, there were 4 top 5 lists, as I asked some of my church music leader friends to contribute. I had some followup thoughts to this post and wanted to share them, along with an un-scientific assessment of the lists.

The assessment will be first: 

Ask a Worship Pastor #2: The top 5 worship songs from the past 10 years

This is part 2 in the "Ask a Worship Pastor" series. Part 1, which asked "What is the biggest misconception about your job?" can be found here. My followup thought to the Top 5 list can be found here.

Over the past 20 years the worship music industry has grown to be quite expansive.

Ask a Worship Pastor #1: What is the biggest misconception about your job?

A little while ago a friend of mine suggested I do an "Ask a Music Minister" segment on my blog and then she gave me a few questions she would like answered. I thought the idea sounded great, but I didn't want to be the only one to give the answers. I happen to know a decent amount of worship music leaders in the Peoria (Illinois) area and I thought I would get them in on this project. I knew their answers would be different from mine and that is what I hope readers will find interesting.

This week our question, asked by my friend Jayme is:
"What is the biggest misconception about your job?