I am the worship and music pastor of a small church community in Peoria, Illinois. I have been planting this church with another pastor going on 5 years now and thus I am a bi-vocational pastor, taking in very little income from my ministry job.
Every week when I go to select the music we are going to sing at my church the next Sunday a number of immediate tensions rise up within me. Tensions in the form of questions so high in number that if I let them they would absolutely paralyze my ability to pick the music at all. For example:
