Merge Worship

• Priority to you identity in Christ as a worship leader
o You are a child of God
o You are a minister to people, primarily the church.
o You are a musician and an artist
• As a child of God you are indispensable but as a minister you are completely expendable.
• He’s naming things that are greater to God than singing as a worship leader
o Loving your wife as Christ loves the church
o Tithing
• If you aren’t an example of Christ-like character, than we can’t call ourselves a worship leader.
• 4 things about child of God
o knowing God
• all spiritual disciplines need to be done at the request of the Holy Spirit; not because someone else did it that way.
• Ask the question…what does my face time with You need to look like?
o Sabbath/Community
• You can sustain long seasons of ministry if you keep your Sabbath
• Most of you would never think of murdering anyone, but the Sabbath command came before this one.
• Ask Jesus what your Sabbath should look like?
• Jesus spent the Sabbath in community?
• Creative people need community to help us not get off base
• 3 things about serving people
o Work under the authority structure of your church
• One of the great things that helped the sanctification process is doing songs that Perry put out there that weren’t cool.
• If you have a consistent problem with your pastor, you may have an authority problem with Jesus. Jesus wants to push us on submitting to him and will use leadership structure leaders to push our buttons.
• Say yes as often as you can, tell what it will take to do it and be proactive and solutions oriented
o Practice Communication
• Other than the pastor, you speak into the lives of people more than anyone else.
• It is worth your time to think and plan through what you’re going to say from the stage
• You’re there with a microphone…ask God for something!
• You give God more time to work on your heart for what he wants you to say
o Work Hard
• God calls…take steps
• Instant, complete and joyful obedience is the only obedience that pleases God
o 3 Things about being a Musicians
• record yourself and listen back…you have the most critical ear.
• Not listening to playback is like having food in your teeth…get a mirror and a toothpick
• Get to concerts
• You get to see professional musicianship
• You get to see crowd interaction
• You owe it to yourself to see U2
• Expand your vision
• Permission to know what pro really means
• Sing for the king
o Sometimes the big notes and solos need to happen
o Sometimes it’s ok to turn around and just sing for Jesus
o Exercise the craziness of your gift
o Ask God how He wants you to sound…(this is a WOW moment for me…been a long time that I’ve been told to chill)
o The best way to do this is to wait to show world class talent is to wait for a world class moment where people will be like holy crap…what’s going on?!?!?!
• The quiet moments are the most important/formative moments and the stage should be an outflow of that
• Don’t have any other gods before me…including worship ministry/artistry
• Build God’s kingdom and the rest will work itself out
• If a player has “his style” and isn’t willing to deviate from that, they might have bigger issues.
• Listen to playback of what you said and see if it was lucid
• There’s a difference between “that felt good” and “that was good”.
• They do EVERYTHING ON A CLICK
• If you can’t make rehearsal (Monday) you don’t play on Sunday…they base mix/video/everything off the recording they do that night
• Addressing character issues is as simple as knowing that worship isn’t about music, but about your lifestyle