A Recipe for More Kirk McPhersons

I think Paul Zahl makes a good point in his criticism to Sally's article when he points out that "The practical burden laid on us by her idea, however, is considerable. In her changed universe, it is make-it-up-as-you-go-along-Sunday-to-Sunday world for worship leaders." Sally's idea of a worship service creates an immense responsibility for the worship leader to come up with something that is new, contemporary and different each week. Under this pressure a leader simply cannot thrive. This will create Kirk McPherson scenarios in the leaders of our churches. This is not the kind of leader or leadership we should desire in our churches. It creates leaders who are more concerned about finding the next new and creative idea than they are about feeding their sheep which in turn results in a congregation full of Biblically ignorant people because their leaders have neglected teaching them from the Bible. So, in this scenario we have burnt out worship leaders trying to feed a congregation of people who have yet to move from milk to meat in their knowledge of the Scriptures. I think we would all agree this is not the Biblical model for worship that properly brings glory to God.