This morning I ran across a case study of the very point I am trying to make regarding the church being increasingly run by the doers rather than equippers.
A Church in Hattiesburg MS. has decided to outsource it’s worship by hiring multiple worship leaders to come in on a rotating basis to lead worship. Here are the advantages he lists:
Jeff says this strategy offers several advantages:
- Many worship leaders don’t enjoy building teams, managing budgets or organizing departments. They just love to lead worship. This strategy let’s them stay in their sweet spot.
- This decision saves money for the church. He is able to pay them really well for a weekend and still save enough money in the church budget to use toward another staff position.
- They love the variety that this brings to their church. Keeping things unpredictable is a plus, says Jeff, to keeping people’s attention.
- They have learned so much from these worship leaders that they wouldn’t have learned from one person.
LeadingSmart: Outsourced Worship
What I see happening in the church is it is increasingly run by the doers not the equippers (Ephesians 4:11-12).
The very first benefit Jeff lists proves the point. They are looking for a gifted worship leader rather than an equipper to be the pastor/leader. What they need is someone who can recognize, call out, equip, and release the gifting of those entrusted to him or her.
Someone there is doing the administration the difference is they should be raising up worship leaders in their body not from unplanted gifted people who have no real relationship with the congregation.
The best doers are rarely the best equippers. Those who are gifted to lead worship are rarely the best at leading people, teams, and organizations.
We need to make the equippers the pastors and leaders so they can release the doers to do.
The church in America has missed the point a bit. What would your church look like if it were run by equippers and everyone was walking in the fullness of their calling.
Every need in the church can be met in the church. Nowhere in scripture is anything ever outsourced. In acts 6:3 they didn’t go looking for recent graduates from Bible college or Seminary they chose from among them.
