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Consuming Worship Interview Part II

Head on over to read the rest of the interview.  Thanks again to Jeff for the great questions.  Visit Consuming Worship for part II.  Thanks to my friends for the kind comments on part 1.

Part 1

Part 2

Interview at Consuming Worship

Recently Jeff at Consuming Worship interviewed me as one of the Worship Leader Wednesday posts. Today is part one of the interview.  Thanks Jeff for the great questions!  Go here to read the interview.

A Little Vision

This morning our worship team got together for some donuts and a little vision casting.  I'm a believer in the power of communication for teams, hence the WST blog, this blog and other sources.  While these are great tools, nothing beats the power of a face to face every now and then.  Here are some of the things we had a chance to talk about...

• Celebration - I've been keeping notes and comments from Connect Cards received during the weekends.  It would be selfish of me to just keep these to myself so I pulled a few out to share with the team like this one.
• 2007 Review - Looked at what major things happened for our worship team this past year.  Things like professed salvations, baptisms, new worship team members etc. 
• 2008 Focus - We've got some major things happening this year.  With an anticipated third service on the horizon, we'll be making some moves this year to prep our worship team for whatever time is decided upon.
• PlanningCenterOnline Training - Walked through some of the tools offered on the site.

It was good for our team to refresh ourselves on why we do what we do.  It was good for all of us to actually be in the same room without instruments in front of us.  I'm looking forward to 2008 and can't wait to see how God uses our team.  Thanks to the team for taking two hours out of your weekend to catch up!

Discontent is Good...Do Something With It

During last summer's WCA Leadership Summit I picked up Bill Hybel's book "Holy Discontent".  I have yet to crack it open, but I know it's going to be a good refresher on directing my discontent for certain things into a greater cause. I believe there are a lot of folks who have a "Holy Discontent" that God has stirred up within them but have yet discovered how to direct it.

Back in 2000, I had that stirring within me. The discontent and passion to squelch worship that was ineffective at stirring people's hearts for God.  I became passionate about eliminating "lame praise", as I once heard my pastor call it, feeling this stirring within me to implement worship that connected people in a way that related to our culture.  When you have a discontent this strong, you feel there's nothing that can or should stop you from seeing that discontent dealt with.

During our Quarterly Leader's Meeting this morning, I was reminded during our conversations that I need to refresh and revisit my holy discontent.  In essence it's good for leaders to deal with "vision leak" and refocus attention to the calling God's given each one of us.

"Discontent is the first necessity of progress." - Thomas Edison

Check out Bill Hybel's book "Holy Discontent"

Watch this video highlight of the book and discover your "Holy Discontent":