Suggestions for those who lead music in the church:

• Love your people, not your songs.

• Without love, songs are just noise—“a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1, NIV).

• Love your people, not their money.

• Shepherds feed the flock. Wolves feed on the flock. Always be a shepherd.

• Love is not self-seeking. (1 Corinthians 13:5)

• Love is the greatest force for innovation, not ambition.

• When faced with a difficult situation or a need, in love create something new (paraphrased from Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker).