Would Jimi Hendrix make it on your worship team?
 

You’d have read recently that Jimi Hendrix was named the best guitar player in history by Rolling Stone magazine in a top-10 list put together by guitar players and music experts. The list has some expected names like Eddie Van Halen, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton etc. though the sequencing didn’t seem so right to me. You see, I have an awfully subjective mind and it’s unable to understand why Brian May, Django Reinhardt or Joe Satriani didn’t make it to the top-10 either!

 

Some of the reasons for giving the No. 1 spot to Jimi Hendrix were innovation in rock music, use of the whammy bar, playing the guitar with his teeth, popularizing the wah wah pedal and so on.

 

Got me wondering.

 

What if we looked out for the best guitarist or best any kind of instrumentalist for that matter in worship music? What would be the reasons to pick someone as the ‘best worship musician’? Would we consider only:

 

Musical skills?

 

Musical knowledge?

 

Creativity?

 

Ability to play different musical styles?

 

 

Or would we look for more...

 

You know, stuff like…

 

Disciplined prayer life?

 

Love for scripture?

 

Humility?

 

Servant heart?

 

Team player?

 

If you were putting together a worship team, what would you look for?

Would someone like Jimi make it?