Well, I have kind of veered away from the ultimate purpose of this blog within the last few posts.\u00a0 That purpose is to share teaching, tips and training on leading worship within the local church.\u00a0 Even though it’s been fun to build community (which I love, by the way, so please keep joining in the comments) I miss just pouring out my heart with what I’ve learned in leading worship and raising up worship leaders within the local church – so it’s time to get back to it.<\/p>\n
At my former church, I was blessed to be able to be hired into a pretty well-established ministry.\u00a0 I just needed to continue to work with those who were already involved and recruit some more volunteers who wanted to be involved.\u00a0 Currently, the situation’s a little different.\u00a0 I’m in a church plant that’s about five years old that has had kind of an on-again, off-again worship ministry going on.\u00a0 So basically, I’ve jumped in with a little bit of a ministry, but not much.\u00a0 There’s been some great growth, but now I’m stuck.\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n
Instead of taking small steps to build things up gradually and consistently over time, I’m wanting to take huge steps to have a full-fledged ministry <\/strong>right now.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I sent out a Twitter<\/a> post a couple of days ago asking for some advice on building a worship ministry.\u00a0 Billy Chia<\/a> sent me this:<\/p>\n Do Less – fewer songs, fewer people, fewer “extras”. Keep it basic and add one new component at a time.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I think he nailed it.\u00a0 When we begin to build a worship ministry, or any ministry for that matter, we need to look at the big picture slowly.\u00a0 Yes, it’s good to have a huge vision, but don’t get discouraged when that vision doesn’t happen over night.\u00a0 My roadblock has been just remembering to take the small steps, the fifteen minutes a day that doesn’t seem like much but will ultimately have me going, “Wow, how in the world did this ministry grow so quickly?”<\/p>\n So, make a point to take things slowly, yet with persistance.\u00a0 Take one small step at a time.\u00a0 Soon that small step will lead to a bigger step yet that bigger step will seem as small as the original small step.\u00a0 So, what’s the next small step you need to take in order to persistently build the ministry?\u00a0 Mine is setting up a meeting and making a few phone calls I’ve been putting off.\u00a0 Let’s get to it.<\/p>\nSlow and Steady Wins the Race<\/h3>\n