What are Your Questions?
Hello all! I’d like to try something a little different. I’d like to get to know the readers of this blog a little bit better, and get a feel for what you’d like to know. So, if you’re a regular reader, someone who’s lurking in the shadows or someone who just happened to stumble upon this site, would you be willing to ask a question that has to do with any aspect of leading worship within the church? We can learn together as we do this. So fire away!
Ryan, I just stumbled on to your website this morning while perusing Swerve. Your insights on the worship session with Chris Tomlin reverberate within me.
My freshman-in-college-Christ-following-want-to-do-something-bigger-than-the-church son is an excellent guitarist and has the potential to be an excellent worship leader. He has led worship a few times at our church youth. I try to encourage him by telling him that there is no difference between him and Chris Tomlin, Lincoln Brewster, etc, except the experience (and probably a manager/producer).
But I also tell him that even though a Texas-sized dream is good, there is nothing like the local church when it is running right.
If you have some thoughts that I could steer his way, I’m sure it would help him in his quest. You know how much parents know about life when teenagers are in the house…
Comment by Rocky — September 8, 2007 @ 8:56 am
Hey Rocky! Thanks so much for the question!
It’s interesting because I’ve struggled with some of those same thoughts before. I’m going to give a detailed answer this coming week so everyone can benefit from this question, but my first thoughts are this:
From everything that I’ve ever heard from these guys when they’ve taught about worship, they’ve all said that serving in the local church is far more important than being on a national platform.
Pursuing Jesus first, honoring Him with your life, talents, and songs that you write is much more important than making it big.
Like I said, look for a whole post on this…or maybe a whole series of posts next week so we can dive in further. Thanks so much for the question!
Comment by Ryan — September 8, 2007 @ 9:28 am