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:
Announcement: I am in the process of discerning whether or not I am called to ordained ministry. Meaning, whether or not I should be a (professional) pastor, a member of the clergy, a priest as some call it.
Coming to this point has been a long journey for me and since I am still in the discernment process, the journey ahead will be long as well.
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?
