I put this in my last e-mail to us as a team and only Ken responded, so I'm still wondering on all your thoughts...
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There is a sense in which it is actually easier for us to be attracted to the idea of working at being a worship team and the act of leading worship than to God Himself. Let's not settle in giving God anything less than a heart that is fully His. This takes us reaching out, acknowledging God, spending time with Him, waiting, listening, stopping our rationalizing, letting go of worry, giving what little we have, prayer, and looking for God in the little things.
As John said about Jesus when He saw that the moneychangers had turned the temple into something lesser: "Zeal for your house consumes me."
Please respond just to let me know you read through this... Thanks!
-w
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I think that's the hard realization that we don't want to deal with. Do we enjoy the form and settle for something far less than God himself?
It might be analogous with saying, "What I like about being married is sex, not being lonely, going to movies with someone and having someone cook me dinner." All those things are good and should be enjoyed. But if it stops there, it's missing the beauty of loving and being loved by a person no matter what they give to us. It's missing the person themselves. If we stop short as we are prone to doing, it becomes more about us then about the other.
I think enjoying the worship team, playing music together is great. I think God meant it to be like that. But God is the destination... he's the goal...
But how does that play out? And the hard question for ourselves is whether we are settling for the form and stopping short of God?
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