Thanks for all the encouraging emails, tweets and comments you sent in response to my last post about ‘songwriting monkeys’! I appreciate so many of you saying it was a needed and timely message.
Help, I'm stuck in a rut!
The reason I wrote the ‘blindfolded monkeys’ post, is that I have a deep desire to see congregational worship be all that it can be, and all that God longs for it to be. One of the things stopping us, are the ‘ruts’ we get into. Patterns that used to be fresh and inspiring, but that have become dead tradition, that only encourage people to go through the motions.
I’ve been wrestling lately with the ‘ruts’ we’ve got stuck in, in contemporary sung worship. This video below is an oldie now, but for anyone who hasn’t seen it, it’s worth a watch! If you have seen it, it’s worth re-watching as a refresher. Read the rest of this entry »
