Rick Muchow has impacted the world of worship leading for decades, including many years as Saddleback’s Worship Pastor. His battle with cancer concluded this weekend, and now he’s free. I am grateful for people like him who have been willing to share their thoughts and what they’ve learned, especially the transparent sharing of what DIDN’T work, or changes that were made that ended up not having the great results that were hoped for…
In our world of crazily rapid transformations, it’s easy to simply let things happen without thinking about them or assessing what impact our decisions are having. It takes courage to openly and honestly self-evaluate – and the willingness to fix problems that we’ve created in our rush to adjust things for the better…
“’People are always telling you that change is a good thing. But all they’re really saying is that something you didn’t want to happen at all… has happened.’ I agree. I don’t think all change is good. I don’t believe God thinks all change is good. I do believe God is good and I love Him.” – Rick M.
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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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