Singing the Gospel: Managing Music Ministry in the Black Church

Gospel music is big business, a multi-million dollar enterprise. But the gospel music industry does not describe gospel music ministry. Most gospel music ministry takes place in tens of thousands of small to medium-sized churches across the country, not in the prominent mega-churches with hundred-voice choirs and full orchestral accompaniment. Music ministers must fulfill the challenge of their calling with no guidebook and few resources.

Singing the Gospel: Managing Music Ministry in the Black Church explores this challenge in three sections. The first section defines the gospel music ministry, differentiating it from the gospel music industry. The second explains the three biblical purposes of music ministry. The third offers specific practical guidelines for managing large singing groups (choirs) and small singing groups (praise teams), and includes guidance for pastors and church leaders regarding the music ministry of their churches.
The information, ideas and practical guidelines in this book draw from psychological and management concepts, and Christian leadership principles, strongly undergirded by scripture. This results in a treatise of biblically sound doctrine for Gospel music ministry. The reader will know with confidence how to manage their music ministry so that God will be glorified

Author: Dr James C. Gear
Publisher: Musical Measures
Published: 08/15/2017
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780999070109

About the Author
Gear, Dr James C.: - Dr. James C. Gear has nearly 50 years experience as a Gospel musician and church music minister for Pentecostal, Baptist, Methodist and non-denominational congregations. He has directed and administered mixed vocal groups of various sizes, from small praise teams to mass choirs of over 150 voices. James is an accomplished song teacher and choir motivator, and is in demand as a Gospel music seminar instructor, a composer and arranger of Gospel music, and as a consultant for Gospel recordings. Trained as a professional statistician, he brings the rigor and structure of the mathematical sciences to music ministry. James currently lives in the foothills of Eastern Tennessee with his wife Kunita.