Calling for the Leadership that....

Take a look around you and you'll observe that there is a scarcity of leadership. I'm talking about leaders whose personal values are enough to make them pillars that provide the essential support for the structures they support, whether that's a company  a local government or even a family. To make things even worse, the ones that occupy the visible positions behave as they like, not caring that there is a generation that is watching them, learning from them.


It seems to me like we are in the days when Saul, the king of Israel, who had himself made it a crime for anyone to consult mediums, went in search of a medium to solve a problem he had. He tried to cover up his dead relationship with God using other spiritual razzmatazz. However, children will always imitate their fathers and we live in days when children are looking for fathers to lead them, to show them how life is to be lived.

In recent times, I have wondered why the gospel music scene has gone the way it has. What happened to the gospel musicians of this generation? Where are they? It seems that everyone of them does nothing but entertain (and please I may be wrong oh). Of course there are exceptions but it seems most are in that category. I also took a look at what happens to most of our worship leaders, who are opportuned to go for reality music shows. Most of them come back telling you they now sing "inspirational" music not gospel music. Simply because they want to have more people buy their yet-to-be-released CD or at least give their songs airplay. Unfortunately there's no one to set them right or give them direction.

I am of the opinion that not all christians who are gifted with great voices or some kind of musical skill will become worship leadersor musicians. Some of them DON'T fit in the choir. That's not God's call on their life. However, I also believe that those who are called to be music ministers should not trade it for "pepper". Do you feel me?

In continuiing with my gist about the scarcity of leadership, I have seen a gap between the generation of the Panam Percy Pauls, the Bola Ares, Toun Soetans, etc and this present generation of influential music ministers. What I am saying is that it seems to me that the standards of gospel music is dropping and there are no very obvious pillars to present the right order. When a young man wants to go into music ministry these days, he will look for a model he can follow that he'd like to pattern his ministry after. Most of those he sees are those whose ministry leans more to the entertainment side so he simply pattern his ministry along those trends.

As I said earlier, I beleive God has called some of us into the entertainment side to minsiter the gospel, but then is it all of us that are called there? Some are headed there because there's more physical reward in pursuing that path. It's interesting to note that the leaders in music ministry have also fallen prey to the same things we've blamed some of our pastors of doing.

In recent times I've had to ask myself, how many of us are into this music ministry because of a call of God and not a call of Naira (or Dollars more precisely)? How many of us are into this musicmanship because of our love for God and service to Him and His people? isn't it the fame that we are after? The attention of the many girls that we get. The honorarium we get for ministering, the fame attached to our minisitry. How many of us can honestly say we would continue following if all the fame suddenly disappeared or He asked us to abandon the things that have brought us fame and go into the backside of the desert to just be with Him? Let's search our hearts and motives.

Purify my heart oh Lord!