Church volunteers and staff – who you are is not what you do. If your identity gets too tied up in your musical or technical ability [or any other ability], you won’t be able to stand critique. If you can’t stand critique, you won’t grow [and will have a really difficult time holding any kind of job for more than a few months]. The truth is that you will succeed sometimes and you will fail sometimes. You won’t be good at new things right away. You’re going to make mistakes – sometimes there will be consequences for those mistakes, but many times people will show you grace if you own your mess-ups, do your best to undo any damage, and work hard to be better in the future. IF you grow up and leave your “It’s Not My Fault!” victim mentality in childhood, where it belongs…
What replaces the victimhood is your identity as a beloved son or daughter – and, as a church worker, a servant – of God. God loves you more than you can possibly imagine – enough to forgive and wipe away your deepest, darkest sins. But also enough to see though the manipulative interpersonal games that we play with each other. He will richly gift us with overflowing goodness and mercy. But He also will not spoil us, and will discipline us if it’s in our [and others] best interest. Most of all, He will never fail. His promises are true. He is good. He loves you. Loved by God – that is your identity
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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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