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here is one of the songs we will be singing that night

download it and learn it here (http://soundcloud.com/hckb/nothing-compares)  so you can be apart of Collision 2011 on august 31st!

"Most of the people who enter your church for a service have not been preparing their hearts all week to worship God. (This often includes the worship team.  ) Their minds are on the annoying co-worker they dread seeing tomorrow. On their frustration from searching for the kids’ shoes and hustling them out to the car. On the guy from the “other church” who cut them off in traffic.

Unfortunately these distractions create walls that keep them from engaging with the service. It often takes them 2 or 3 songs to begin to focus on the service (if they ever do). A worship leader’s job is to meet the congregation where they are, and take them to a place of focus on God. (This looks different for each church.) And the worship leaders in a worship service are not just on the stage. They are also the sound guys, the stage designers, the lighting/video folks…they are all working in conjunction to remove distractions to help the congregation focus on God."

I found this on a website I often visit for resources and Ideas today.  SO TRUE! Tom Landeza (our youth pastor) and I just did a message on worship a couple weeks ago Check it out here---> http://hckb.sermon.net/sermonid/2547271

 and pretty much said the same thing. Although I really like what the writer said about the "backstage guys" being as important as the worship team. The sound crew, lighting techs, Multimedia techs and Stage designers are just as important as the worship team. 

I sometimes hear some of our younger worshipers saying "The worship was bad" or "the service didn't like us". 

I was there before, young, learning my instruments, stretching the gifts God gave me and finding my calling, very insecure....I can understand.  But its like that Purpose Driven Life book says "ITS NOT ABOUT YOU!"

My friends would tell me is this your "calling" or is it something you kind of just want to do? In other words is it about what you want to do, or is what God has designed for you to do?  For me and where I am at, I believe that if I ran away from my calling and did something else there would always be this feeling of discontentment,  When you are living for God you cannot run away from his plan for your life.

 I believe God has given everyone in His church different gifts and purposes to use them and ALL should be taken seriously.  When it comes to worship leading some teams forget that the key word there is LEADING. sometimes people wont like the style of music you play, songs you play, volume you pay at, instruments you use, the way you play your instruments, how you play songs etc. You just gotta meet people where they are at and use Your gifts, You teach the congregation the songs, you walk them through things, let what God has written on your heart speak for you and if your hearts not in it...you probably shouldn't be doing it. Take your position seriously, practice and invest in your talents. 

I kind of think about  the parable in Matthew 25:14-30 when I think of talents sometimes. God doesn't give you more than you can handle and when you handle what you have been given well, he will bless you with more. Basically if you have a talent or a spiritual gift, don't ignore it and say "Im good enough" or don't say "what I have isn't as good as that persons". Don't be the guy who buried his gold, don't get caught hiding your gift!

Check out the video from our Collision worship night this past summer.

The Hope Chapel All I need single is available on itunes, amazon mp3 and cdbaby.com 

   I picked up my guitar this morning and decided to play around a bit.