“What is incredible is how many churches pay people full time to be ‘worship music
leaders’. They are given status equal to the pastor.”
What is appalling here is not so much that
“worship music leaders” are given any status at all in modern Christian thinking,
nor is it that they are paid a salary to do a job in today’s evangelical churches
that has no precedent in the New Testament church and no authority from
scripture, though both of these facts are certainly regrettable.
No, it’s that the accepted term of
comparison is “the pastor”. The status of that equally modern and unbiblical role is assumed uncritically, entirely
by default, and near-universally.
In other words, the people who see clergy in the Bible where it doesn’t exist have successfully redefined the language we use about servants of God.
