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The Pastoral Nature Of Leading Worship with Zac Hicks [Podcast]
The Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast brings you interviews from leaders across the theological spectrum of the global Church. Our goal is to bring you thought-provoking interviews that encourage you, challenge you, and help you build, run, and keep great teams.
In today's episode of the Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast, Rusty Gates talks with Zac Hicks, Worship Pastor and author. We discuss the nature of leading worship.
Zac Hicks is the Canon for Worship & Liturgy at Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, AL. He is passionate about exploring the intersection of the old and new in worship and thinking through the pastoral dimensions of worship leading. He is also a songwriter, having recorded seven albums to date.
Zac is the author of The Worship Pastor, has a popular worship blog, and has contributed articles and posts to Worship Leader Magazine, Reformed Worship, The Gospel Coalition, and Doxology & Theology.
Rusty talks with Zac about:
- The pastoral nature and leadership of the role of Worship Directors
- Using volunteers vs. paid musicians in a worship ministry
- How to cultivate your volunteers' gifts and develop a good volunteer team
- Best practices for having both traditional & contemporary services
Guest Links: Zac Hicks
Links Mentioned in this Episode
- Cathedral Church of the Advent
- The Worship Pastor by Zac Hicks
- Silence: A Novel by Shusaku Endo
- Makoto Fujimura
- Super Mario Run App
Quotes from Zac:
The role of a Worship Leader was never supposed to be divorced from a pastoral perspective.
If an artist makes money doing this outside the church, I want to pay them for doing that inside the church.
You want the gifts within your church being utilized & not sidelined.
Take a pastoral approach to making changes to your church's worship.
