Why Music Ministry Fails!

About the Book

Book Description & Foreword Written by Minister Linton F. Hester Why is there so much conflict amongst church musicians? What is the true condition of the musicians heart in regards to skill and anointing? Do musicians really suffer? Why do musicians and Pastors struggle to see eye-to-eye in certain situations? How can I usher the people of God into an atmosphere of prophetic worship? How can I minister effectively if I am limited to play only what the Pastor wants to hear instead of what God desires to hear? How can I worship beyond where I have been? This book is a news flash for todays church people. Filled with raw, un-cut and untamed truths about the life, functions, and duties (or non-duties) of ministry. This book is full of unsaid truths and ignored realities that we as a church purposely neglect and walk over. But the reality of it all is that it happens and it exists in ministries around the world. In these chapters, the writer uncovers operations of homosexuality, lesbianism, non-marital relationships, church entertainment, nepotism, blessing blockers, and church confusion. These are the conflicts and calamities that we as a people of God permit everyday with the lack of desire to change it or the unction to pursue Holiness, which requires the lifestyle of transformation. This book is designed to address the life, experience, and details of Musicians, Ministerial Leaders, and Worshippers, Intercessors, and everyday church goers in ministry and in the church. Exposing the shush, hush and secret taboos of ministry. This unfolding testimony of this musician, worshipper, and minister unveils the complexities of not just musicians, but of ministers of the and of people of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who endeavor to allow God to lead, teach, and guide His [Gods] people to commune with Him [God] without the interference of mans preferences and manipulations. The encounters of this writer is a testament of Preachers, Teachers, Musicians, Pastors and other members of the body of Christ who have become frustrated, disappointed, discouraged, and on the verge of leaving church and the people of God on someone elses door step. Because of church politics, idiosyncrasies and traditions this has become the mindset of todays church, but this book will convince you to hold on just a little while longer your change has come. This incredible writing is written to set in order and to make plain the position of the Pastor in regards to music, the musician in regards to having the ear, heart, and life for God, and the for the people of God to be open and receptive by submitting to the flow and direction(s) of the psalmist/minstrel as they carefully lead the people of God into the almighty presence of the King of Glory, CHRIST JESUS. This book has an immeasurable value of wealth, knowledge and power that covers a mass of areas and that expresses the heart of God and provokes the minds of readers to recognize the Apostolic and Prophetic Realm of Worship and deciphering if it is evident in their life and church environment. This writing also motivates men and women of God to enter into Consecrated Worship & Reverenced Atmosphere that is in its entirety, Theo centric. Through a lifestyle of consecration, an appetite to remain sanctified with an undying thirst for the unadulterated and undiluted anointing of Christ, this book insures and charges you to examine your life, your walk and your relationship with Christ through Discerning the Atmosphere and revealing to you your heart for God. This God inspired book speaks to the real you, convicts the real you, and deals with the realness beyond the pull-pit, the keyboard, the church title and church position. This book requires you to self-check and examine your life of worship and to face the realities of your relationship with God and your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. If you have doubts of your purpose, if you question your gifts, callings,

About the Author

Nathaniel C. Kelley III currently holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Education; a Minor in Interdisciplinary Studies; as well as a Minor in Music Studies. “Why Music Ministry Fails” is his first attempt at conveying through text, the existing ignored problems detrimental to music ministry as well as the facilitators. Today, his vision and love for music ministry is continually birthed through the realm of the prophetic and built on the power of God, in response to the people of God! “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”- Luke 14:6