What’s your back-up plan? Sooner or later, you’re going to hear those words. You’d better have one, because things WILL go wrong eventually. A few weekends ago, the Super Bowl was in town, and that meant an incredible spike in the wireless signal traffic in the Indianapolis area. We wanted to make sure that we didn’t have unwanted signals stopping us mid-service, so we had extra wireless mics available, and wired mics ready to just in case.
When I was serving at Willow Creek, we had multiple levels of backup for everything. Pastors were often wearing a wearing a backup mic (occasionally two), and there was always a wired mic waiting in the hands of a front-row techie. Any long video had a backup copy running on a backup drive that could be switched over to with a minimum of hassle. As a music director in the past, I learned backup parts, and had people in mind that could fill in if someone got sick, etc…
The idea is not to be perfect. It’s just to take seriously the fact that we have been charged to do our very best for God, and for the people that He has entrusted to our care. It’s OK to make mistakes – it’s just not OK to make the same mistakes over and over, and backup plans help!
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I'm a Christian, a husband, a dad, a son, a pastor, a consultant, a musician, a writer, and bits and pieces of a bunch of other things. My work life has followed three main phases - business to teaching to church. I was the Weekend Services Pastor for nine years at Northview Church, an awesome church in the Indianapolis suburbs. I used to work for Willow Creek, another awesome church in the Chicago area. Plus I've written for various magazines and websites, and other freelancy sorts of things... My life mission is to help the church be as excellent as it can be.
Oh yeah - the name's Greg. Greg Wallace. But not the race car driver or the major league pitcher or the British celebrity chef. Just the creative worship guy. Hi.
It's my hope that these ideas, musings, rants, raves, etc... will inspire you. They're just my opinions - but again, I hope that they'll help to inspire you. Because the church really, really needs inspired creative types. If you're a creative type (and most people are, deep-down), ask God for help. Then take any ideas that are useful to you - borrow them, nab them, use them, adapt them - and make them into something greater...
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