1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,100
We have a special treat today. We've been going through our series on worship.

2
00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:09,160
Worship with everything. The idea that really everything that is available to

3
00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:14,520
us mentally, emotionally, physically, are ways and things and tools of which we

4
00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:20,080
can use to worship God. We started by talking about the Shema, this prayer that

5
00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:25,080
the Israelites would pray twice a day. Hero is real, the Lord our God is

6
00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:30,320
one. One God. Worship the Lord your God with all of your heart, with all of your soul,

7
00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,080
with all of your strength. Jesus taught this and said that was the greatest

8
00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,520
commandment. That the second one is like it, that you should love your neighbor as

9
00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:44,160
you love yourself. And so for us, worship is giving everything that we have back to

10
00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:49,920
God and then worship affects the way that we love our neighbors. And then Scott

11
00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,800
taught us about praying the scriptures and then last week we used the

12
00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,440
scriptures to write a new song. And something that a lot of you have in

13
00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:01,720
common is that you have played an instrument in some point of your life.

14
00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:06,440
Tony is someone that I know that has played the instrument of the bass like

15
00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,540
few people I've ever met and I really appreciated that he said yes that he

16
00:01:10,540 --> 00:01:14,880
would come and talk to us about using your instrument as a way of worshipping

17
00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:19,280
God. Please welcome Brent Anthony Johnson.

18
00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:25,280
Well this is going to be brief.

19
00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:39,440
Hi. How's it going? I am so blessed to be here with you guys. Sincerely. You don't

20
00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:50,240
know what it means to me to talk to you. Try not to cry. Worshiping with your

21
00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:56,280
instrument. It's something that I don't think people understand the depth of

22
00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:03,400
doing and being and there's a great difference in doing and being. I think

23
00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,520
the church has a lot of doers and I think times of doing it's very important

24
00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:14,840
to be that person. In times of ministry or at the point of ministry it is very

25
00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:23,240
very very important to be. And I think that there's a misunderstanding between

26
00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:29,160
these two things. There's nothing wrong with doing nothing at all. Being however

27
00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:49,200
comes from the inside. I was uh I started playing music at 11 and just had a

28
00:02:49,200 --> 00:03:04,800
natural way of doing this. It was as if I was made for it. That was great. So I

29
00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:10,720
found myself in bands and I found myself functioning with musicians and learning

30
00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:17,040
about the musicians in my community. I grew up in East Moline and a lot of great

31
00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,760
players and at a time when it was before the internet, it was

32
00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:28,400
before it was when you went to see bands. I mean don't get me wrong I'm not

33
00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,920
faulting the internet. I would much rather sit at home you know in sweats. Get the

34
00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:37,320
best camera angles. Look at the best sound you know on my little device and

35
00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:42,480
you know I'm eating pizza you know. This is a great show. This is fantastic.

36
00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:47,120
You know whereas you know looking at the broad view you have to look at

37
00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,400
everyone. Someone starts to play a solo and it's like oh it's that guy over there.

38
00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,960
The camera doesn't tell me anymore you know in the live setting the camera

39
00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:59,640
doesn't tell anyone where to look you know. That's good and bad I suppose. So I

40
00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:07,480
came to Christ at 17 about five six years into this journey when I was playing

41
00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:15,120
and came to came to that came to playing on worship teams through the world's

42
00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,880
weirdest scenario. I won't even get into that right now. Suffice to say that I was

43
00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:26,320
invited by a pastor of a church to show up. He kept calling me because I saw

44
00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:30,760
something that was I saw pure evil. I saw something. I saw someone who was

45
00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,720
possessed and she was the mother of someone I knew and the pastor came to me

46
00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,560
and said you saw that. So I kept calling me to church and so and found out

47
00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:45,120
what do you do? I'm a musician. I play in bands around town and stuff like that. So I was the

48
00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:52,080
weirdo sneaking out you know my parents. That's my mom by the way. Say hi mom.

49
00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:58,280
So she really encouraged it and it was it was really good for me so I started

50
00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:03,880
playing at this church and from the moment I was that I came to Christ I

51
00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:11,040
was playing music and it never stopped and later on in my life well a little

52
00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,920
later on in my life I realized that it was kind of meant to be that that's what

53
00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:25,920
I do and God recognized it and well obviously it was built that way. So really

54
00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:32,640
it took a few minutes for me to start understanding the word it's applied to

55
00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:38,000
my life okay. I was reading the Bible because it was cool and I was learning

56
00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:44,800
things about God without ever really applying it to myself. I mean it was I

57
00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:49,920
was learning about God you know and then God started talking to me. No wait hold

58
00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:57,120
on that's wait you have words for me? Weird. And through that really wonderful

59
00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:04,320
little still voice that thing that keeps talking and at one point

60
00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:23,920
I was practicing and I heard God say this is what I made you for. Sorry. That was a

61
00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:33,600
calling. So I stopped immediately thinking about how to do it when God was

62
00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:42,720
telling me be it. It went down on the inside and stayed there. Eventually I

63
00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:48,880
found myself applying the word to my life and I stumbled across Psalm 333

64
00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:52,760
for anyone who ever touched an instrument or ever sang or ever spoke

65
00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:59,080
publicly it says sing to him a new song play skillfully and shout for joy. The

66
00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:05,320
word of the Lord is right and true. He is faithful in all he does. The Lord loves

67
00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,240
the righteousness loves righteousness and justice and the earth is full of his

68
00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:16,560
unfailing love. How that works for worshiping through your instrument is

69
00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:22,560
I've said everything I could ever say about worship right there. I don't have

70
00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:36,200
to do this because you guys it's so weird that from this place the body that

71
00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:44,440
I've been called to serve sees me operate my gift and so I never really

72
00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:49,960
have to talk about it and that seems to be the place where the Lord uses me and

73
00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:59,080
my job. This play skillfully thing is very important and I think that

74
00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:07,120
oftentimes in the church people want to do that and it shows up in various you

75
00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:11,440
know varying degrees of how that functions because we have lives we have

76
00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:18,560
jobs we have things to do and so sometimes we get really busy and we find

77
00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:25,840
ourselves at times showing up to do this thing to serve right. Unfortunately

78
00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:34,640
sometimes that if you're not being it and you're not forcing yourself to live

79
00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:41,600
it because a call is something that you don't have a choice about. You can't just

80
00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,640
say well I was too busy doing this but I'm gonna do this over here. It's not

81
00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:54,880
gonna show it's not gonna be gold but it'll be gold filled. You know we as a

82
00:08:54,880 --> 00:09:00,720
body as believers we can't afford that we can't afford that. Not only do we give

83
00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:10,200
God our absolute best and and prepare it but we can't do that to each other. We

84
00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:16,040
can't do that because this place and when we get together is the thing that

85
00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:27,400
helps us go on. It can be fake or half done. We can't afford that because this

86
00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:33,600
is the lifeblood of who we are as a community. It's how we stand up it's how

87
00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,680
we talk to one another it's how we present the idea of Christ in this world

88
00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:51,360
right. So to be can be looked upon as arrogance you know I am the greatest you

89
00:09:51,360 --> 00:10:02,720
know. He was though right and I think that we sometimes the church can kind of

90
00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:12,440
place situations in a very weird light. Some years ago when Apple first started

91
00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,280
doing it I know I kind of identified them as first to do it where they would

92
00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:20,960
roll out new products right and the guy would come up in on a stage in front of

93
00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:28,880
people and talk about that product now great that's gonna be you know you guys

94
00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:35,840
realize that he got that from church right. Right so it's like it's like it's

95
00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:41,200
like a service the whole thing goes down there's music and then the guy gets up

96
00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:50,360
let me tell you how great we are. The church that he stole that from took it

97
00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:57,160
back from them those people and changed it from being how great God is to how

98
00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:04,560
great we are and it's heartbreaking because the church invented the

99
00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:09,560
university we canonized music we're the first people to write it down we're the

100
00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:18,000
first people to teach it and now look at it because it's been changed you know my

101
00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:24,000
my heart cries to take that back and the only way I can do it is to be

102
00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:32,160
proficient. As a cold worshiping musician on my instrument it is my it's part of

103
00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:41,880
my daily routine to make sure that I can do that. My joy is to do it for you guys

104
00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,240
because I get the best emails you guys worship.

105
00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:58,400
Now I get to see it because I'm not there showing you how I worship that's

106
00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:11,480
not the job I'm not teaching you how I worship I'm taking you there and it's

107
00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:18,560
just not about that it's not about showing you how I worship I sometimes

108
00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:31,280
can't even look at you guys because it's beautiful but the job is to be so able

109
00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:36,560
to play that I'm not trying to play at the time that I'm leading I'm not

110
00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:47,960
trying to play I can play does that sound arrogant no I can walk right right

111
00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:53,320
do little things um but that's how that should be for for someone who's called

112
00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:59,560
to do this task it's like putting on pants it's has anybody ever said you

113
00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:06,680
know I love the way you stand there you can stand up looks like you've been

114
00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:12,320
standing up for a very long time it's you know what I'm saying it's like it but

115
00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:19,840
we try to sort of make things holy that are weird it's like that's normal you're

116
00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:24,000
supposed to do this you're supposed to do this well there is nothing in the

117
00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:29,040
word of God that says show up and figure it out throughout the Bible there's

118
00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,760
400 more than more than 400 calls to worship more I mean you know I'm saying

119
00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:38,040
there's numerous musicians named even in building the temple God said

120
00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:42,680
specifically go get that guy go get that guy go get that guy go get that why I

121
00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:47,920
built them to do this I made them I created them to do that can you imagine

122
00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:56,720
sitting there having a cup of tea and the priest show up at your house God said

123
00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:09,120
you do this well I do God says he's gonna build a tabernacle and you're the

124
00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:22,680
guy what yeah because he created you to do this everyone functioning in this

125
00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:26,880
body everyone functioning everyone walking and breathing Christ has a

126
00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:31,120
calling we are born with fingerprints and we don't even use them unless we're

127
00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:38,520
naughty a God who did that

128
00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:51,040
so we have to stop showing up for position we have to stop wanting to

129
00:14:51,040 --> 00:15:00,840
appear to be something we not and just simply be because we are all something

130
00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:06,920
and it's a matter of addressing that and serving this body I you know we live in

131
00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:13,280
this post-Christian age right we do maybe it's because we're not showing up

132
00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:20,360
make you know maybe the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was give me your

133
00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,600
soul for 30 years I'll give you a pension and they couldn't have your life

134
00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:31,600
back what why are you in ministry you'll be poor I'm in I'm in ministry and I'm a

135
00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:37,640
musician I'm broke I ain't I'm saying I mean that's not that's not the career

136
00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:47,360
path that one chooses for oneself trust me but worshiping on the instrument it's

137
00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:53,960
such a when Greg and I talked about this I couldn't really talk about playing I

138
00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:58,640
mean people want to talk about that thing when they see me do that thing

139
00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,480
that's great that's wonderful it's really sweet and I love the fact that

140
00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:10,460
you love how I speak into the music of this place I do thank you but the music

141
00:16:10,460 --> 00:16:18,200
I speak into in the world out there that is my witness because I can't walk in

142
00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:23,880
proclaiming Jesus and not be able to do the job I got hired for none of us can

143
00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:32,120
afford that right thank you we can't afford it so oftentimes I'm my greatest

144
00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,800
witness and how I get to talk to people about Jesus is because I showed up and

145
00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:41,040
did something well you know people say weird things to each other right you

146
00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:54,280
seem rather spiritual I just asked for pizza um I'll bless it don't know we

147
00:16:54,280 --> 00:17:01,320
back in a second it you know but that is how I am able to talk to people about

148
00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:08,960
the Lord and that's the only way that's all I got and I love it having one thing

149
00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:14,880
one thing by which you can speak in the world because life is big it's like a

150
00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:22,880
mountain it's imagine Everest right you're gonna climb Everest there's so

151
00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:28,440
many ways to get up there and if you find the right Sherpa to take you up the

152
00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:33,400
way you want to go it's usually successful trip if you want to go up a

153
00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,200
different way and you find the wrong Sherpa this Sherpa says you gotta go

154
00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:42,440
find you gotta go talk to Ted I don't do that I've been up there 500 times just

155
00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,840
not that way you gotta find the guy that takes you up the right way that you want

156
00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:54,520
to go right otherwise as a mountain it's just too big this is the way I get up

157
00:17:54,520 --> 00:18:00,120
the mountain that's it so many way know how to do it it's the only way I want to

158
00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:07,880
do it hmm and there are bodies going up there that did it the wrong way or

159
00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:16,520
something and I so so all that said

160
00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:25,760
worshipping on your instrument it's a really interesting and weird task um it

161
00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:34,240
comes down to you how in the world we're ever going to be able to say anything

162
00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:50,880
about how wonderful God is we you know well with with with singing and worship

163
00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:59,200
being mentioned so often obviously God means it obviously means it and you know

164
00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:03,520
people sort of fall into this idea let's make a joyful noise I can't really sing

165
00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:14,080
fine you know however if you want to sing you can learn to sing you can learn

166
00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:19,600
to sing anybody can learn to sing actually if you sing enough at home

167
00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:26,120
you'll sing better in public if you want to be if you want to sing not to be a

168
00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:31,960
singer but if you want to sing sing all the time sing all the just do it just

169
00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:37,000
go out this walk through it I I sing I sing all the time and I don't even know

170
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,760
I'm doing it I didn't turn the radio on in my car I'm driving down the street

171
00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:45,120
singing I know so I'm gonna stop light and I'm sure people like wow he's into

172
00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:51,040
that song you know the window comes down and there's no music maybe he's on his

173
00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:56,160
phone maybe he's singing with someone online maybe they're you know maybe

174
00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:06,400
they're doing a podcast I don't know Wow thank you for letting me do this

175
00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,920
there's all kinds of things here the other thing I want to identify is that

176
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:22,440
worship is warfare it's warfare and if you aren't prepared for that you're

177
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:29,320
gonna get run over we are gonna get run over we as a musician I've always kind

178
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:36,920
of you know when I teach I I make this comment that if you're going to go fight

179
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:42,920
a battle wouldn't it be wonderful to be a specialist like special forces right

180
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:48,920
I'm into military history and all that stuff if not for an amazing wonderful

181
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:53,440
case of a stigmatism I would actually have had a military career when I was

182
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,480
young you couldn't get corrective surgery to do that sort of thing and

183
00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,760
they weren't taking people with us you know and they were saying oh you'll

184
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:06,120
probably end up typing or something great why go um but I really part of me

185
00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:13,560
wanted to be like Green Beret or Navy SEAL or Rangers you know and I wouldn't

186
00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:18,240
want to go into warfare any other way than with specialists I I give the

187
00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:25,600
example of how as a team very small team usually six people or so everybody

188
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:31,800
knows someone else's job in the team in case something happens but applying that

189
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:38,640
to music when when in this in this church the way we work together Greg and

190
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:43,280
I there's a there's this wonderful dialogue that goes on and I'm paying

191
00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,960
more attention to that really as I as we lead because they'll say something or

192
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,560
play something and I'll play something back you play something back that's a

193
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,760
wonderful conversation that happens a lot you think about jazz musicians it's

194
00:21:55,760 --> 00:22:01,520
a conversation it's usually not about the song the song is merely a platform

195
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:07,880
to be around people you love and care for and who care for you and how there's

196
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:13,640
this beautiful relationship that it's beyond words you know I'm saying it's

197
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:21,720
we don't have to talk to each other about the song it's not about learning

198
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:28,760
the song as you try to lead someone to the throne of grace that's an

199
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:34,760
impossibility you know what I mean imagine a pastor preaching and is

200
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:41,720
learning the Bible as he or she does so that would be weird imagine learning how

201
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:47,200
to drive and driving someplace never having touched the wheel never having

202
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,800
been behind the wheel of a car before you're gonna go to California I don't

203
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:58,560
drive you are now but by the time you get there you might be better at it yeah

204
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:05,960
if you get there um you know you're gonna drive through every major city

205
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:15,840
between here and the West Coast good luck that so that's that's that's not

206
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:21,840
something to do nobody you know that's absurd ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and yet in

207
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,960
certain churches right now there's someone on a platform trying to lead

208
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:35,360
people trying to learn this thing this this thing no we have to take the time

209
00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:40,840
to get our craft together that happens at home that happens at home none of the

210
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:46,920
stuff happens in public it shouldn't I spend hours and hours and hours and

211
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:53,000
hours and hours every week to maybe play well there's three songs here on Sunday

212
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,640
I might do a commercial session I might do this I might play on someone's

213
00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,840
record I would say that if I'm not playing live from not touring if I'm

214
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,440
not doing that sort of thing there's not a week that goes by that I played like

215
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:11,640
ten songs unless I'm trying to learn something but to learn the songs that I

216
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:21,160
need to present is worship everything's worship everything goes back to being

217
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:27,160
and not doing I can't do music I can't I can't there are days I don't want to do

218
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:33,240
music really honestly there I'm sure there's days that Robin doesn't want to

219
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:39,440
dance great doesn't want to preach I'm sure of it you know you we all have jobs

220
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:44,480
do you want to go every day and do it is anybody really good at their job is

221
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,920
anybody really really good at their job I mean no I'm asking a serious question

222
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:53,160
who's really good at their job yeah right right but isn't that a weird isn't

223
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,600
that weird okay so if you're really good at your job and you love your job how

224
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:07,520
many of you are called to your job yeah right right I guarantee you that if you

225
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:14,400
feel that way it is far more effective not only for the job itself but for

226
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:19,080
everyone around you I love it when I'm hanging out with somebody who's working

227
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,880
and they're really good at their job you just want to be next to them you just

228
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:26,800
want to like wow this is cool um this person is really called to do this and

229
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:35,320
you learn so much just the conversation about it and so as we talk about music

230
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:43,840
it I don't know that I can play music anymore without worshiping I think

231
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:49,600
that's been the case for 40 years maybe and I it doesn't matter what I'm playing

232
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:58,480
I will cry in a minute to Eleanor Rigby the song the Beatles I think I met the

233
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:03,080
Beatles just comment um and I say all the time when I'm when I'm talking with

234
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:08,160
the Christian singer songwriters if that person can make a two minute and 34

235
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:14,840
second song that is that profound that is a worship song I don't know what to

236
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:20,400
say here say Jesus okay that's great this worship song good in the context of

237
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:25,240
that song two minutes 34 seconds we're introduced to two characters one of them

238
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:31,760
pies and there's all this aftermath in this how life can be life and this sort

239
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:38,760
of thing that's amazing I think that I think that God meant us to hear that so

240
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,960
it's not just Christian songs it's not just worshiping as a worshiping musician

241
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:52,200
as a worshiping through my instrument for this it's simply being every and

242
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:58,800
honestly trying to develop a skill set and trying to you know have chops that

243
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:04,960
sort of thing it's I think the thing that I bring to music it's that I'm

244
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:10,040
worshiping all the time I just worship to you know playing a track for a bank

245
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:19,480
commercial for Geneseo last week and I found myself worshiping not the bank um

246
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:29,480
but just because I don't know that there's a magic place where as a

247
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,600
musician where I'm playing something that I didn't know I could play that

248
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:44,320
really doesn't happen it's really sometimes in that context it's just very

249
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:48,560
profound I think that's the Holy Spirit I think that's what that is I think that

250
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:54,080
notes are just notes and God brings them to life through the player through these

251
00:27:54,080 --> 00:28:03,600
hands through this voice through you know and that and that's really all

252
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:17,720
there is as a Christian as a believer as a musician we well doing this doesn't

253
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:24,920
automatically make it holy because we can't put that on and take that off at

254
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:30,120
will we can't do something and expect God to go yeah that that right there

255
00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:38,400
it's how we come into the scenario and it's who we are in this moment in time

256
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:51,440
ordained to present this idea so um hmm God's calling doesn't exonerate those

257
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,400
called from the hard understanding of being become as skilled as possible

258
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:06,200
anymore than playing in a church makes itself holy I am so glad I was able to

259
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:11,240
do this I hope I made sense um

260
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:27,320
I'm asking all of you to be and stop doing please please please be be because

261
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:36,880
you are that's why you are just just be ask God ask him he'll tell you he'll

262
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:42,440
tell you he'll tell you a lot tell you when you want to do something else

263
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:53,880
because he's always spirit is waiting to use us to talk to this place they need

264
00:29:53,880 --> 00:30:00,160
to hear and how we get up the mountain how we get there is unique completely

265
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:08,240
individual God's very creative he gives I mean look at each other Wow there's a

266
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:15,400
lot going on here that you can't just sit down and write what we see every day

267
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:21,600
we take for granted every day Wow because this is how he's gonna do this

268
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:35,200
he's gonna use us hmm I am relieved that I'm done talking now I'm really got

269
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:45,200
through that I'm also relieved that um that I was able to be blessed with this

270
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:56,240
thing to do this little bit this little tiny bit so that's what it means to

271
00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:04,040
worship through your instrument the instrument is a vehicle worship is of

272
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:13,360
course the idea it's how so if you take a moment and think about how you worship

273
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:22,120
and what that means and what that could mean for outside of these walls thanks