One thing I can say in the last few years I have had a steady dose of prog metal.
I love prog metal.
Think about it-a combination of classical and heavy metal music-my two favorites!
Just like Reses peanut butter cups-chocolate and peanut butter!
Rock on freaky bro!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Boring
I have been involved in worship/music ministry for at the least fifteen years.
My tour of duty at CLA has been the roughest and most trying in any church so far.
Our pastor leads worship-if you want to say that.We have been doing the same songs in the same manner for ages and it is getting boring.It is getting frustrating.
I'm contemplating a sabattical for awhile what is the purpose if my heart is not in it and it is a constant fight to maintain the proper attitude.
This is supposed to be a ministry and yet we are not . We are supposed to be a team yet it is the musicians versus the pastor because he HAS NO SENSE OF TIMING!
He doesn't know how to start a song,or finish it.He even struggles at knowing what to do when the Spirit takes over-like that bird dog in the cartoons-"Which way did they go,which way did they go duhh..."
Kind of cruel aren't I? I know.It just is frustrating because I look for leadership in this ministry and we don't really have it.As a pastor he can't invest the time necessary to develop the ministry to that which God desires it to be-he's filling a crack that needs to be filled by a leader designated for this position.
Week after week it is the same we work on the songs-yeah okay. and belt them out and butcher them-chaos.Is God the author of chaos or are we?If so,we have a responsibility to lead people into the presence of God.I fell the leadership is thinks that is important but it gets lost in the deluge of church stuff.
I desire to serve under a leader that invests time and careful prayer in the music-(worship compliments the preaching of the Word.)
I long for a leader who takes the time in encouraging and instructing us in new things and making time to mentor us in the Lord.
Our youth leader makes time with her leaders almost every week to discuss matters go over upcoming events and disciplining and praying.
Things need to change and maybe it starts with me.I feel as if we are spinning our wheels up there and just"getting the job done".
I think that if this is a waste of time I would be better off in a band than play at church.Yet I believe that leading worship in music is a high calling that must be handled with utter fear and care.I want to see in the end,that people's lives were touched.People's hearts were encouraged to go forth and experience God and walk away never the same person but changed from the inside out.
But in the meantime...
My tour of duty at CLA has been the roughest and most trying in any church so far.
Our pastor leads worship-if you want to say that.We have been doing the same songs in the same manner for ages and it is getting boring.It is getting frustrating.
I'm contemplating a sabattical for awhile what is the purpose if my heart is not in it and it is a constant fight to maintain the proper attitude.
This is supposed to be a ministry and yet we are not . We are supposed to be a team yet it is the musicians versus the pastor because he HAS NO SENSE OF TIMING!
He doesn't know how to start a song,or finish it.He even struggles at knowing what to do when the Spirit takes over-like that bird dog in the cartoons-"Which way did they go,which way did they go duhh..."
Kind of cruel aren't I? I know.It just is frustrating because I look for leadership in this ministry and we don't really have it.As a pastor he can't invest the time necessary to develop the ministry to that which God desires it to be-he's filling a crack that needs to be filled by a leader designated for this position.
Week after week it is the same we work on the songs-yeah okay. and belt them out and butcher them-chaos.Is God the author of chaos or are we?If so,we have a responsibility to lead people into the presence of God.I fell the leadership is thinks that is important but it gets lost in the deluge of church stuff.
I desire to serve under a leader that invests time and careful prayer in the music-(worship compliments the preaching of the Word.)
I long for a leader who takes the time in encouraging and instructing us in new things and making time to mentor us in the Lord.
Our youth leader makes time with her leaders almost every week to discuss matters go over upcoming events and disciplining and praying.
Things need to change and maybe it starts with me.I feel as if we are spinning our wheels up there and just"getting the job done".
I think that if this is a waste of time I would be better off in a band than play at church.Yet I believe that leading worship in music is a high calling that must be handled with utter fear and care.I want to see in the end,that people's lives were touched.People's hearts were encouraged to go forth and experience God and walk away never the same person but changed from the inside out.
But in the meantime...
Forty
Okay i am not going to spend alot of time on this subject because I had a birthday this month.
I turned forty.(insert ominous music blurb)
Yeah,yeah okay I am forty now.A lot of people are forty now-and now I am.
So big deal.If you are busy and content in living your life to its fullest,you won't have to worry about your age.
There I said it.Can we move on?
I turned forty.(insert ominous music blurb)
Yeah,yeah okay I am forty now.A lot of people are forty now-and now I am.
So big deal.If you are busy and content in living your life to its fullest,you won't have to worry about your age.
There I said it.Can we move on?
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