Tomorrow [or possibly today], Easter services will be here. Lives will be impacted – in many cases, eternities will be changed. And the truth of God’s incredible love for His fallen, broken people will be proclaimed around the world.
Incredible, life-changing news – but not everyone wants to hear it. Proclaim it anyway. You may get criticized or ostracized. In fact, it’s a pretty good bet that you’re going to take some hits. There will be some people who won’t like what you say. There will be some people who will be convinced that they just plain don’t like YOU. Love them anyway. Proclaim the truth – with gentleness, mercy and compassion. The same mercy and compassion that God has shown to you. Walk into church, knowing those attacks are coming, and do your job – preach, sing, teach kids, usher, etc…
Be brave – dare greatly!
“Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience. We must walk into the arena, whatever it may be – a new relationship, an important meeting, our creative process, or a difficult family conversation – with courage and the willingness to engage. Rather than sitting on the sidelines and hurling judgement and advice, we must dare to show up and let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.” – Brené Brown
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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...
You can head over to my Instagram site for an abundance of shorter posts: creativeworshipideas. If you're looking for consulting - especially on weekend services, team leadership or multi-site strategies - I'd love to help. Just message me here, and I'll be in touch - Greg
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