martyns303:


i may not say d words exactly but imma give u clues, u may ask your pastor bout this: the bible says a labourer is worthy of his wages or sumtin like that, an being a musician means your of the ''LEVI'' and the levi's are those responsible for music in the temple, and just as the priest they also benefit from the offering brought to the temple. Its from your offering they pay the pastors, so also the levi's or musicians. Ask your pastor to verify what i'v just said.

unclebros:

@martyns303 are we not all workers in His vineyard?

Lets live the pastors here for now, there are so many people that use their God given talents in the church without pay. So I dont think instrumentalists are different. Talking about Levi, Choristers do fall into that category but dont get paid.

davidylan:

Well as "levi" (sic) those musicians ought not to work but live 24/7 in the temple right? They shld own no land, no car, no houses, no inheritance as well. you cant just be a levi when it comes to eating from the offering plate. Be a levi all the way!

martyns303:

Anybody can be ordained a priest if u walk in GOD but the musicians are special people, they have to be decendants of levi(as of then sha').

KunleOshob:

It is only in commercialized pentecostal churches that this practise of paying instrumentalist goes on, you won't find it happening in the more decent churches. I once overheard a pastor complain about the high cost of paying instrumentalist in churches theses days, i was shocked cos prior to then i had though they did it as a voluntary service to glorify God. I asked him why he had to pay instrumentalist, his response was that if you don't pay them well another chrch like House on the rock[Paul Adefarasin] would snatch all your good instrumentalist by attracting them with better wages. And when you don't have good entertainment music in the church you would loose your members to other churches who can provide the members with better quality music. It then occured to me that it was just a strategic business practise, its just about providing quality customer service to their customers to retain their patronage and enusre the revenue keeps streming in, its all about competition amongst competing businesses churches.

Bach took up a post as a court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar, . . . . .

In August 1703, he accepted the post of organist at that church, with light duties, a relatively generous salary,   . . . .

He was offered a more lucrative post as organist at St. Blasius's in Mühlhausen, a large and important city to the north. The following year, he took up this senior post with significantly improved pay and conditions, including a good choir.    . . . .
  Bach left, to become the court organist and concertmaster at the ducal court in Weimar, a far cry from his earlier position there as 'lackey'. The munificent salary on offer at the court and the prospect of working entirely with a large, well-funded contingent of professional musicians may have prompted the move. . . . .

unclebros:

You all need to see the attitude of these instrumentalists brethren, for most of them, they dont bother about where they worship , they only bother on the pay.
Most of them hop from one church to another, not properly discipled as a Christian. When you chat with them, For those of you that kept referring to them as the Levites, you discovered they dont have ministry on their mind. All they know is pay me now or i get out of your church.

Now i blame the pastors that started this movement. The money has lured these guys from the rudiments of the ministry and the Word!

unclebros:

You all need to see the attitude of these instrumentalists brethren, for most of them, they dont bother about where they worship , they only bother on the pay.
Most of them hop from one church to another, not properly discipled as a Christian. When you chat with them, For those of you that kept referring to them as the Levites, you discovered they dont have ministry on their mind. All they know is pay me now or i get out of your church.

Now i blame the pastors that started this movement. The money has lured these guys from the rudiments of the ministry and the Word!

alexleo:

music is a profession that some of these musicians spend money and time to learn. They learn it as a profession that they want to use to fend for their living. Ushering and the other ones you are talking about are not in this category. Does the electrician, the mechanic, the capenter, the medical personel, the painter, the plumber, the ICT personel etc. render their professional duties free for churches. If one is moved to do that its not bad but not by compulson. And if these skilled workers get paid when they render their services to churches, I see no reason why a musician should not be paid except if the person decides to do it free.

martyns303:


@david. First am not sure levi's ain't suppose to own properties, i'll do my home work on that. but if that is true will the church provide the neccessary infrastructure required as a person for them?