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How My Picture of Ministry Is Changing

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, music

(You might want to read these two posts first, if you’re just joining us, so you have a grid for this one.)

In my last post, I shared how in a conversation with my family about our creative gifts, we realized that we had been trying to fit our gifts into a traditional ministry paradigm, instead of letting those gifts BE the ministry. I shared what an “a-ha” moment this was for me.

When a truth like that confronts you, it creates a paradigm shift. In other words, when you build a whole mindset around some assumed beliefs or facts, and a new truth is entered into the picture, you have to re-think your assumptions to accommodate that truth.

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Right Under My Nose (part 2)

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

Sometimes “a-ha” moments can be enlightening and inspiring, like I described a couple of days ago when I said that the seeds of the creative community I have longed for exists in my own family.

But sometimes “a-ha” moments can be a little devastating, too. When you realize how long you’ve gone on with a mindset that constricts your dreams rather than releases them–that can be a little devastating, even while it inspires.

This is a preview of Right Under My Nose (part 2). Read the full post (984 words, 1 image, estimated 3:56 mins reading time)

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New Ears to Hear

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

I’m going to ramble a bit here, so I hope this post makes sense to other people besides me. 🙂 If not, I’m sorry.

Here’s an interesting phrase Jesus used several times as a coda when he was teaching in parables, and again to all seven of the churches He addressed in Revelation 2-3:

“He who has ears to hear–let him ear.”

This is intriguing because it suggests that even though He is speaking, not everyone will hear or understand what He says. Hearing is not automatic here. And it also suggests that the key to hearing and understanding is that our ear needs to be inclined to hear Him.

This is a preview of New Ears to Hear. Read the full post (754 words, 2 images, estimated 3:01 mins reading time)

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A (Not) Exhaustive Word Study on the Word "Calling", and What I Think It Means

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought

In my continued ponderings on the idea of being “called”, and looking with a fresh set of eyes at my own sense of “calling” as a believer, it made sense to do a little word study on the words “calling” and “called” in the Bible. At first look, I was honestly surprised.

Here’s what I found:

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Re-Thinking Worship (Part 7–Being Real)

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, worship

I don’t know how long this series will go. I’ll keep posting on this topic periodically until I run out of things to say about it. 🙂 If you’re just joining us…links to the previous six parts are at the end of this post.

As a worship leader in institutional church settings, I admit I bought into the “show-must-go-on” mentality. In one sense, it was a coping mechanism, because if I let my teammates take the morning off because “I just don’t feel like worshiping today”, or “I had a really bad week, and I’d feel like a hypocrite if I got on the platform today”–I’d probably never have had a quorum. There sure were a lot of times when I didn’t feel like getting up on that platform.

This is a preview of Re-Thinking Worship (Part 7–Being Real). Read the full post (987 words, 1 image, estimated 3:57 mins reading time)

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Re-Thinking Worship (Part 6–The Lost Art of Reflection)

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, worship

And so we keep going…there’s just so much to say on the subject of worship. (Links to the previous posts are found at the end of this one.)

I have been a big fan of corporate worship. By corporate worship I do not mean worshiping corporations. 🙂 I mean the act of coming together as a people to worship God–as a people, in one accord. I still like that dynamic when it happens, and I think God does, too. Looking through the Bible, and through history, it seems like God has a tendency to manifest Himself when people come together with the common purpose of seeking Him. (Pentecost is just one example of many.)

This is a preview of Re-Thinking Worship (Part 6–The Lost Art of Reflection). Read the full post (932 words, 2 images, estimated 3:44 mins reading time)

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Re-Thinking Worship (Part 5–These Songs We Sing)

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, worship

Okay, continuing the thread on worship (read parts one, two, three, and four here)…

I’ve been pondering on this blog about why, as a worship leader, I have become bored with corporate worship as we currently practice it. It’s caused me to start deepening my understanding of worship beyond just the singing of songs, to focus more on the weightier matters of the heart, to consider that worship can involve all of life, and even to reimagine what other sorts of things we can do that could be called “worship.”

This is a preview of Re-Thinking Worship (Part 5–These Songs We Sing). Read the full post (981 words, 2 images, estimated 3:55 mins reading time)

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Post, Post, Post, Post–a Posting about Posts

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought

The title alone of Brother Maynard’s latest post made me chuckle…

The Post-Modern Post-Emergent Post-Evangelical Post-Charismatic Post-Fundamentalist Post-Label

…and his first sentence made me think.

“It’s gone so far now that we’re blogging about how we’re tired of talking about the topic we’re blogging about. Again.”

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Re-Thinking Worship (Part 3: Our Response)

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Categories: changing mindsets, worship

So in pondering the things I’ve shared in the previous posts on this subject…our house church has launched a sort of experiment.

In coming to realize that there must be much more to worship than the corporate worship leader directing the congregation–that this is a method rather than a principle, and is therefore subject to change; and in realizing that this method is growing stale on us; and in realizing that worship is supposed to come from an overflow response to what God has done and is doing in our lives…we began to ask the question:

This is a preview of Re-Thinking Worship (Part 3: Our Response). Read the full post (456 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)
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