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Friday Five: Stephen Miller

Should worship leaders be rock stars? We ask a popular recording artist and worship pastor.

For today's entry in the Friday Five interview series, we catch up with singer and songwriter, Stephen Miller.

Stephen serves as the worship pastor at The Journey in St. Louis, Missouri and travels with his band, leading worship in conferences around the world. His latest album, just released, is All Hail The King. Today we wanted to talk to him about his provocative new book, Worship Leaders, We are Not Rock Stars.

Worship Leaders, We are Not Rock Stars is a rather provocative title. What is the message you want to get across to worship leaders with this book?

I think a lot of times people want to use God to get what they want, rather than be used by God to get what He wants. So we can take our own sinful desire, slap some Christian language on it, and call it good motives. This really doesn't fool or help anyone. Our culture's obsession with the celebrity has seeped into the church and famous celebrity Christians are the norm now. That can be a very tempting thing to desire. But there ...

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