Summary
Peter Senge, the MIT professor and management consultant, often poses a question of CEO's and other business leaders at seminars he conducts. He asks, "If your organization was a ship, what would your role be in relation to that vessel?" He always receives a variety of answers, such as "the captain," "the navigator," "the cruise director," or "the pilot." However, he says he almost never receives the answer that he believes is the most appropriate: "the architect." The ship, he says, can do no more than the architect designs it to do. It cannot go faster, turn more sharply, or provide more comfort or functionality than the architect has designed in.
So it is with the roles of the worship leader. He or she is the architect of the worship experience. The worship experience can soar no higher, touch no more deeply, and provide no more solace or strength than has been architected by the worship leader.
The roles of the worship leader are designed to create a worthy vessel that carries the worshipers nearer to the God who is worthy of all our praise.
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Experiencing Worship, The Study