The worship leader - sound tech relationship is usually either pretty great or pretty not.

The reality is that each week, our sound techs serve heroically to bring our musical offerings to life. They often lack training, affirmation, and proper equipment. It’s super hard work. And usually thankless.

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A friend asked me how long the music in church typically is.

I answered with this: There are two basic streams in the church:

Non-Denominational churches built their services on two elements: the Worship and the Word. So there’s usually a chunk of one followed by a chunk of the other.

Denominational churches have liturgy and sacraments woven into their orders of worship. They may have similar total times of music, but they are spread throughout the service.

This is clearly a gross oversimplification and generalization, but it gives us a little picture.

But that’s not the question my friend was asking. What she really meant was “Why does the music go so long sometimes? Can’t they tell we’re not into it?”

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I felt like the team was impersonating a vending machine. We were free to worship, but there was no leadership, no serving. It was help yourself.

And I did that morning. I distinctly remember having the thought “Well, I can get bent out of shape because they aren’t leading us, or I can just choose to press E-4 and worship.”

That’s fine. I get it. We all lead that way sometimes. But our congregations need more from us. They might not know that they have change in their pockets. Or what buttons to press. And their nutrition might get snagged by…songs they don’t like, volume that they don’t prefer, or their own lives shouting at them.

They need us to lead them with kindness, clarity, authority, and sensitivity.

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What do you do when things don’t work out like you thought they would? Not little things. Big things. Things you had given your heart, your best energy, your trust, your reputation, your dreams, your sacrifices. Big things.

Hear the words of Jesus!

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Being mired in the urgent keeps me from being able to look further ahead and do the things that are most significant.

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How often do you get out of your normal environment and do something that stretches you, that gets your blood pumping. Something that keeps you fresh, limber spiritually, and connected to other things God is doing in our area?

There’s such value in doing this! Most of us have church ministry equivalents of a cubicle desk job. We need to get out there and stretch.

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