Foster was instrumental in shaping this dissertation and my understanding of educational design. I am grateful to the many people who have provided feedback on this thesis, including Ron Man, Jonathan Welch, Devon Kauflin, and Matthew Westerholm. The pastors, elders, and musical team members of the First Evangelical Church (Memphis, Tennessee) have been incredibly supportive of my studies.
My parents, Paul and Dori Boer, trained me in godliness, encouraged me in the development of my gifts to serve the church, and sacrificed to allow me to receive a Christian education. Mom has fought cancer during my studies, and her trust in God's sovereignty and goodness has been a testimony to all. Rachael, the love of my life, has done triple duty during these years of my Ph.D.
Our children have encouraged me in my studies, not least through her positive example. I look forward to being just husband and father in the Boerenhuis for many years to come.
INTRODUCTION
Today there is a great need for a strengthening of the church music education at the Southern Baptist colleges. The written course descriptions from the high schools and universities included in the survey sufficiently convey the intention of the curricula. 3 (July) as it is a concise summary of the history of musical leadership in the Southern Baptist Convention.
This lack of uniformity was present among Baptists before the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention. Bergler further develops the implications of the development of youth ministry in The Juvenilization of American Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012). In The Worship Pastor, Zac Hicks invites worship leaders to consider themselves pastors because of the responsibilities they have been given.
The role of women worship leaders is related to the churches understanding of gender roles in the church and their perception of the role of the worship leader. This section will highlight some of the key descriptors, definitions and metaphors used in the previous literature. He also addressed questions that have been raised about the function and role of the worship leader in the local church and provided a taxonomy of applicable metaphors.
Rather than providing a chronological overview of the corpus (similar to an Old Testament or New Testament overview), the second volume provides a current perspective of the same material (similar to systematic theology). Plank, “The Relationship Between Discipleship and Worship Leader Effectiveness in the Local Church” (D.Min. project, Biola University, 2016). Both groups prioritized the study of the biblical mandate for the use of music in worship.
The worship leader's relationship with the senior pastor receives special attention in the literature. Rich Kirkpatrick, author of The Six Hats of the Worship Leader, argues that “developing people. 72 Mark Pierson, The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of the Worship Leader (Minneapolis: Sparkhouse Press, 2010).
Verbally explaining the elements of the church service is an important tool in the worship leader's toolbox. The church and academia see the importance of the worship leader's ability to lead choirs differently. Kurian, “The Person of the Worship Leader: A Qualitative Study of Communal Worship” (Ph.D. diss., Fuller Theological Seminary, 2015); Brittany E.
The first piece of information was job descriptions for worship leader positions published on the Southern Baptist Convention website.2 Only job descriptions that contained "music" or
Data Analysis of Job Descriptions
Detailed protocols were followed for the content analysis of the job descriptions, including word frequency queries of the text, the in vivo coding of content that could not be coded to initial nodes, the combining of similar nodes, the observation of all text for any passages left uncoded, and numerous cross-checks.12 The "aggregate coding from child nodes" function within NVivo was used on all parent nodes to ensure that the ranking of nodes was accurate. Detailed observations and notes were kept throughout all steps of the coding process.13 The content analysis of these job descriptions led to the identification of forty-four worship leader KSAOs, based on 4,018 total references that were coded.14.
Content Analysis of Course Descriptions
Detailed protocols were followed for this part of the analysis and can be seen in Appendix 3.
Comparison of Job Descriptions and Courses
The most common attribute found in full-time job descriptions is "leading corporate worship in public," which appears in 82.6% of job descriptions. Attributes were also grouped into three categories that reflected the content of the job descriptions. Six corporate worship leadership leaders were found in 30% to 50% of part-time job descriptions: “singer,” “lead or oversee choir,” “lead worship band.”
A Kendall correlation analysis was also conducted between the order of characteristics in job descriptions and course descriptions. Plank, "The Relationship between the Discipleship and the Effectiveness of the Worship Leader in the Local Congregation" (D.Min. project, Biola University. Several characteristics had a much higher number of occurrences in full-time than part-time job descriptions time job descriptions.
The biggest difference between full-time and part-time job descriptions is the requirement for the candidate to serve as a pastor or elder. 15 "General biblical and theological knowledge was ranked 26th in job descriptions and 3rd in subject descriptions. 18 “Leading or supervising a choir” was found in 59% of full-time job descriptions; it is also found in 42% of part-time job descriptions.
