Elias Dummer

Canadians aren’t buying what Sean Feucht is selling. Neither am I. See, in the early 2000s, at a high school in Hamilton, Ontario, being a Christian was, for a brief moment, punk rock. Some friends and I had started a small Christian lunchtime group. Harmless but earnest, we met weekly to pray and build community. We had school approval and the group grew from four to 20 students without issue. Then a new principal arrived.

ShareTweetPinPocketFlipboard Don’t Call Me a Worship Leader. Seriously. Our words do matter. And I have a concern with the way that we use a couple of particular words: I don’t want to be called a worship leader anymore. In between working as worship arts director at a church and The City Harmonic becoming a full-time job for me, I ran a small marketing company. And if I learned anything at all in that time, it’s that our ideas, our habits and our words really do matter.

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