I love my job

No job is perfect. So when I say that I love my job, like your job, there are parts of it that I don’t like. But most often, my days are spent doing things that I truly hope are furthering the Kingdom in some small way. I just wanted to write a quick note this morning to express my thankfulness for the most special part of my job: the people I work with. I’ll be the first to say that I love it when a worship set is just “special” or “memorable”. You know what those services look like. Every service we see God in some unique way, but there are some services where the presence of God is felt so clearly across the room and in our hearts here at Harvest. It’s probably a good thing that those kinds of services don’t happen every single week. I’m not sure we could handle ALWAYS being on the mountaintop. I love executing a song that we’ve worked hard on just as much as the next person....but the performance and execution of a worship song is not the best thing to me. I love the people I’m surrounded by week after week. The elders I’m called to serve, the staff that I serve alongside with every single day, the praise teams, bands and tech people in our ministry and our choir. What an awesome thing it is to serve with all of them. Just wanted to quickly write and say that this week was especially meaningful to me.

Wednesday night, at choir rehearsal, I shared out of Galatians 4 where Paul is rebuking the church for leaving their faith and living according to the law and in turn enslaving themselves instead of living in the freedom that Christ provides. We had a great time talking about that and then learning a new song. Last night, with the band and praise team I shared that same devo out of Galatians 4 and we had such a great time. What I loved most was that there were people in the group who openly shared about the things they are personally enslaved to. There was transparency and honesty and I know the Lord loves that.

I know that in every area of my life: at home, at church, small group, worship department, etc.  If our investment in one another is simply just hanging out, playing or singing together and we never get to the deeper things of life. Things like discipleship and holding each other accountable and building one another up....well, then we’ve completely missed the point of why we’re here. I know that I want to be more about people. Do you? More about OTHERS instead of OURSELVES? I hope so. I’ll pray for you as you pray for me in this regard. Have a great day.