My name is Adam and I am a Worship Arts Pastor in the Kansas City metro area. I don't claim to be an expert at anything I just know that I find value in other peoples experiences and so I want to put mine out there in hopes maybe someone might benefit from them. Enter your e-mail below or click the orange button up top to subscribe to my blog!
This blog is about a journey we are all on. It’s my experiences, ideas, passions, victories and failures as a Worship Pastor, Husband, Christian and artist. My hope is to encourage and motivate those on the same journey and hopefully have some fun along the way.
I am cursed with being a “people pleaser”. I have been ever since I can remember. I want people to like me and think highly of me. I am motivated by compliments and the approval of my peers. The converse is also true. As quickly as a compliment can brighten my outlook, a critique pulls me down fast. It lingers in my mind far longer than it should. I waste energy and time analyzing it.
Last week we started our new Series "Big Rocks" which addresses the core foundations of our faith. To set the stage we added some boulders to the stage to represent the "rocks" of our faith. To spice things up a little we created a cool background of paper plates and cups to the back wall. Then we shot some led lights at them that change colors on their own creating a really cool effect. It was funny, on Sunday morning people were getting really close to the stage to try to figure out what those things on the back wall were! It turned out really cool and the whole thing cost less than 50 bucks!
If you go to the bookstore you can find literally thousands of books on leadership. Even if you narrow it down to “Christian” leadership there are an overwhelming number of resources that tell you just what you need to know to be a good leader. I have many of these books and resources myself, and there is value to them. I started reading 1Timothy in my devotions recently and found a treasure trove of leadership teaching, straight from one of the founding “Pastors”, Paul.
One of the things I took pride in during the first few months of my worship pastor position at Grace Community is the fact that none of the musicians that were there when I came, had left. I had always heard about new worship leaders coming to a church and most of the band would quit or go to other churches. While that is the case at some churches, it seemed not to be the case with me.
Something I have come to find out these past few years is that experience, in many situations, is more important to people than “credentials”. In other words, people want to know if you have done the job more than if you “know” how to do it. The more I see this being true in my life, the more I have come to realize that I need to absorb experiences, even the bad ones… especially the bad ones.
