Good morning;
March 15
Let's talk about celebrating the Lord!
We kicked off our new series entitled 'Soul Food; How to feed yourself'. This Sunday the message was about the spiritual discipline of reading the Bible. I've been looking forward to this series and this first message was a good one.
The worship team....let's just say it was a 'whole 'notha level'!!
After our not so inspiring offering off the previous week, I had a quick pep talk with the team. I just let them know that every Tuesday the staff gets together for an evaluation of the previous week, as well as a look ahead to the upcoming one, and the general consensus was that last Sunday was pretty flat. I basically threw down the challenge. This service should be the best service we have ever had at PCC.
Did God ever light a fire in that team! Inspired prayer, inspired vocals, the entire team was focused on worship and leading the congregation. It was encouraging and uplifting and soulful and meaningful. In the words of Pastor Shawn "That's what I want every week!"
High
Sarah Pelz. My goodness can this girl sing. My goodness does this girl love the Lord. A whole notha level!
Low
My sound team somehow didn't record the message. Gonna have to talk to those guys!
Team
Dean - vocals/keys/acc. guitar
Gord - drums
Berkley - bass
Logan - ele. guitar
Wes - keys
Elly - vocals
Sarah - vocals
Songs
All because of Jesus
Did you feel the Mt.s tremble
It is You
To the River
From the inside out
Monday, March 23, 2009
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2 comments:
I appreciated the opportunity to read your blog post from March 15. I used to be a Christian believer and I served my local church for years by leading worship teams.
After reading your blog entry I feel a profound sense of peace about leaving the Christian faith. Your blog entry has effectively reminded me of how petty, critical, judgmental, misguided, unsupportive, irrelevant and unappreciative church leaders can be. I found your pastor's comment, "that's what I want every week!" to be particularly humorous. Who does he think he is?! As a Christian leader he ought to know that worship doesn't revolve around him. And why should his opinion matter to you? As a Christian worship leader, shouldn't your primary concern be with the condition of your heart/soul as you approach your "heavenly father" in worship?
If your god really wanted to "light a fire" in your worship team, do you think she/he really needed your help? Actually, I think your "pep talk" was quite coercive and manipulative. If it's true that you informed your worship team that the "consensus" was that "last Sunday was pretty flat," you ought to be ashamed of the morally reprehensible way you've treated your volunteers. Instead of publicly shaming them, perhaps you could disciple them in their faith. If they're not as "inspired" as you think they should be, perhaps this is an opportunity to enter into conversation with them--a "pastoral care" moment, as it were.
Further, I sincerely hope you've obtained permission from your worship team members to publish critical comments about their musical (and spiritual) performances on your blog. If you haven't--and you call yourself a Christian--smarten up! This is highly unethical behaviour. The golden rule, "do as you would be done by" applies to you too--how would you feel if your volunteers blogged their critical comments about you?
Although reading your parochial, small-minded, critical (and rather pointless) blog makes me feel embarassed that I used to call myself a Christian, I want to thank you for providing me with a sense of peace about leaving the faith.
I'm saddened by these comments. I feel like maybe you've been quite hurt by the church that you served so faithfully. It is my prayer that God brings you back a church that will lead you and guide you into a full and mature spiritual walk with Him.
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