Team Church Worship

It has been an incredibly long time since I’ve posted . . . mainly because this blog is not so much a place for me to write, but a resource.  This is where I have been spending much of my time lately.  Trying to resource the ministry God has allowed me to lead.  I believe that most of us aspire to do something with the one and only life we have been given.  I believe that God has a unique calling for each on of us.  Most of us however either don’t believe that, or we do and we are just plain lazy and never “get around to” doing something about it.  So I am writing today to challenge you and myself to “do something” about it.

Do you know what you want to do?  Do you have some thoughts about what it will take to get there?  Have you tried to start and something gets in your way?  If so, know that I’m right there with you.  I’ve been there . . .  I believe the difference between dreaming and doing is ACTION steps.  Now there are many more experts out there who can tell you much,much more about how to really follow your dreams.  But in the past few months I’ve seen things happen that I thought would never happen.  Below are a few examples of what I’ve begun to do . . .

ASPIRATION: The last few years I have tried to figure out how to step back from my Sunday morning responsibilities to observe the team so I can lead them better

ACTION: This weekend my wife Julie Clark will be leading.  Last weekend Bruce Florence (whom I’m discipling) led a few songs.  In 3 weeks we’ll hav a guest worship leader while Julie and I are on vacation.

ASPIRATION: I love technology, particularly websites and designing them, but it loves to distract me since I love it so much . . . For the last 2 years I have been the administrator of the Team Church website.

ACTION: I have handed off the administration of the website to our Graphics and Publications Manager Rebecca Fish.

ASPIRATION: Our sound team is incredible, I have taken them as far as they can go, but long for them to go somewhere I cannot take them.

ACTION: Next month we are hiring a Sound Engineer for 3 months to train and develop this team so that Sunday morning becomes a much greater experience as a whole.

ASPIRATION: FIve years ago, I took this position as the Worship Pastor at Team Church.  It is one thing I aspired to . . . But part of that aspiration was to write and record songs for the “c” church and for the “C” church.  For two years now, Julie and I have complained about all the things that were holding us back form this dream.  It’s really sad some of the things we thought were really holding us back.s

ACTION: We determined to spend a portion of our tax return on a new computer so we could record demoes of our music.  We determined that asking people for help was not a bad thing . . . (read Acts 2 and tell me if the church isn’t supposed to operate like this).  We determined that what we thought this journey would look like, doesn’t have to fit in some mold.  We currently have 2 demoes under our belt out of the 40 songs we have in our scattered notebooks, journals and scraps of paper.

SO . . . what do you aspire to?  What are you doing about it . . .

Below in the comments section I would love to hear about your dreams.  My job as your pastor is to “to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up”.  So, please share those things that you aspire to below.  I want to see us be the church, I want to see us reach our God-given potential so that His church may be built up and that He may be lifted up, because in doing this He will draw the lost to himself.

– KC