‘What do we do if we’ve only got one musician?’
This is one of the most common questions I’m asked by church pastors. Even though I work for a relatively large church which is well resourced in terms of musicians, there are some weeks when the flurry of apologies makes me feel as if I’m the only one left!
Nil desperandum
‘Don’t despair!’ is where I’d start, however glib it sounds. If the word is preached faithfully, and the congregation is responding in praise to God and in encouragement of each other, then even if there are no musicians at all, the Lord is powerfully at work by his Spirit. Having a dearth of musicians isn’t the greatest problem. In fact, I do know some church leaders who would prefer to have no instrumental musicians at all.
