Offertory
Recently I’ve begun to care less and less about how an arrangement sounds. Or how musical something is. I always wondered if its laziness and contemplated 2 Samuel 24:24 where david refused to take a piece of property for free saying “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing.” but now I don’t care. As long as there are no distracting elements (which can mean both lousy playing or fantastic playing), its fine. Whats the point of a nice sounding offertory if nobody can follow the melody with the words in their head? Without the words how does it minister to them other than being nice sounding and calming? Of course, I acknowledge the power of music without words like how david soothed saul with his music. It was possible he did not sing but that is not known really. Anyway, point is as long as the people are pointed to God I don’t really care how I sound, or look, or what people say. I hope John 3:30 would be evident in my life as I serve him in this skill based public ministry.
If you’re reading this don’t ever tell me it was nice or what. I’m not used to saying “praise God” over here but I really think its all that needs to be said. Then if you really want to encourage me you must pray more cos I go through alot each week before I serve. Its like a whole torrent of trials for one simple offertory to come out.