MAKING MUSIC
It's fascinating sometimes, listening to IPOD owners trying to outdo one another. Conversations go much like this -
How many songs have you got on yours?
Around 700, but there's room for 15,000. What about you?
I can only get 5,000 on mine, but I have over half of it full.
Imagine the sheer joy of having 15,000 songs instantly accessible! If you ever needed a break, you could actually check out from the real world for around three months, sit back and listen to them all!
The cynical edge on my comments should be taken with a pinch of salt and seen as coming from someone who has a 6-disc CD changer in his car and hasn't changed a single one of the CDs there in living memory.
Music isn't a big part of my life. But worship is. I love to worship God and I particularly enjoy being able to do that with a crowd in a Sunday service. There's a special dynamic to corporate worship that makes it totally different from sitting in my recliner and singing Kum Baya.
So this Friday as we come to our coveted Supercool Persons Of The Week Award, I want to honor a great group of people who put heart, soul and a lot of hard work into helping me and so many others to worship on Sundays - our worship team, led by Nancy Saponieri.
These are not only talented musicians and singers, but they are people with a heart to bless God - they are worshippers themselves and not performers. Functioning in a tenant church, they don't have the luxury of simply arriving and plugging in on Sundays, they're among the first to arrive and the last to leave. Equipment has to be set in place, wires run, soundchecks done and all this reversed a couple of hours later. Long before that, there is all the preparation and practice that is somehow added into already busy schedules.
They did an excellent job at our 4Him worship evening last night and I see this developing quickly into one of the most popular things we do outside of our Sunday services. It gives us the opportunity to spend a lot longer worshiping than we do on weekends.
I'm not a music buff, but I am grateful that God has blessed us with such an outstanding worship team - our Supercool Persons Of The Week.
How many songs have you got on yours?
Around 700, but there's room for 15,000. What about you?
I can only get 5,000 on mine, but I have over half of it full.
Imagine the sheer joy of having 15,000 songs instantly accessible! If you ever needed a break, you could actually check out from the real world for around three months, sit back and listen to them all!
The cynical edge on my comments should be taken with a pinch of salt and seen as coming from someone who has a 6-disc CD changer in his car and hasn't changed a single one of the CDs there in living memory.
Music isn't a big part of my life. But worship is. I love to worship God and I particularly enjoy being able to do that with a crowd in a Sunday service. There's a special dynamic to corporate worship that makes it totally different from sitting in my recliner and singing Kum Baya.
So this Friday as we come to our coveted Supercool Persons Of The Week Award, I want to honor a great group of people who put heart, soul and a lot of hard work into helping me and so many others to worship on Sundays - our worship team, led by Nancy Saponieri.
These are not only talented musicians and singers, but they are people with a heart to bless God - they are worshippers themselves and not performers. Functioning in a tenant church, they don't have the luxury of simply arriving and plugging in on Sundays, they're among the first to arrive and the last to leave. Equipment has to be set in place, wires run, soundchecks done and all this reversed a couple of hours later. Long before that, there is all the preparation and practice that is somehow added into already busy schedules.
They did an excellent job at our 4Him worship evening last night and I see this developing quickly into one of the most popular things we do outside of our Sunday services. It gives us the opportunity to spend a lot longer worshiping than we do on weekends.
I'm not a music buff, but I am grateful that God has blessed us with such an outstanding worship team - our Supercool Persons Of The Week.
posted by Roger Blackmore | 11:27 AM
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