Musical talent, good singing voice and theological depth are no longer the ONLY requirements of a good worship leader.  These days an encyclopaedic knowledge of the entire Hill$ong back catalogue, as well as a few other well worn discographies is also necessary.  It would seem the new de rigeur must have for any church that wants to attract and draw more people [from other churches that don't have what I'm about to say], is a metrosexual worship leader.

To help you work out who you need to sack ["thanks for all your many years of faithfulness Nigel, but we see your gifting now in the street van ministry"] and who you need to hire “Hi Phoenix! Not sure if you can sing but would you be interested in joining our worship team?”] - check out the incredibly funny StuffChristiansLike blogspot for a handy guide.  You can rate your worship leaders and come up with a score.  You could even post it on your website to give you the edge in the flock-shifting game.

Here’s the guide.

The rest of the site is worth a read.  It’s filled with very amusing takes on church life.  It provokes a kind of ‘healing laughter’ within me which I’ve blogged about previously here.