Hey, church team members – a challenge for you today. Own your mistakes. You are going to make a lot of them over the years – that’s part of being human. Also part of being human, sadly, is the tendency to want to shift blame… We play the victim all too easily, whether out of pride or fear [or both]. The reality is that most people will cut you some slack and even potentially think more highly of you if you take accountability when you drop the ball.
Notice that I didn’t say be proud of your mistakes. If you keep messing up in the same way over and over, don’t just chalk it up to being imperfect. If you do, you’re not being “real” or “authentic,” you’re being a jerk who doesn’t care what impact you have on others. Our failures DO sometimes damage those around us – a worship team member’s lack of prep, for example, causes the entire team to suffer [and ultimately the congregation, as well]. So own your mistakes – strategize to find ways to avoid making the same mistakes over and over – and then do what you can to make things right.
Move Tour Wednesday night, March 9, 2011, at Northview Church in Carmel, Ind. Photo by Kurt Hostetler
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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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