Chapter 9

In this chapter, Krauter tells a story about people in a church and how their church was growing so much and becoming very well known. But when the churched hired a worship leader named Kenneth they started to notice some actions he was taking that wasn't very God like. Later Kenneth realized his actions and resigned from the church and the church then hired Cindy as the new full time worship leader. The pastor at this church then wanted to hire a younger musician to bring in a younger generation to the church and he wanted Cindy to mentor him. When she tried mentoring him he wouldn't listen to her and thought that his ways were best. Krauter is trying to tell us even if we are put in a position of authority we should not just not listen to others ideas. This was the message that Krauter was trying to tell us, do not be arrogant because there is always much to learn especially in a church setting.

I really liked this chapter because it was more of a story instead of just a straightforward message. I liked how he then talked about the overview of the whole situation and what we should take away from this story. He really explained well and really was talking to not only the younger generation of worship leaders but also the older generations as well. Across the board I think this was my favorite chapter in the book thus far!

Chapter 8

In this chapter, Tom Krauter talks about growing our Spiritual maturity. He talks about this idea of loving the Lord through music. By growing in this love we must grow in our maturity of faith! He cites verses such as 1 Timothy 3:1-13 and Titus 1:6-9, which talks about gaining leadership through biblical qualifications and growing through our faith. Tom Krauters explainations of becoming an effective worship leader through this chapter was very evident and interesting.

I really enjoyed this chapter because i found it very informative and important to grow spiritually in maturity. Without that we would not be able to expierence new things in our faith and grow from different expierences. Overall this chapter was very interesting and informative, and I thoroughly enjoyed it!