Dear Worship Dude // The Fourth Letter
[These are make believe letters to make believe experiences meant to garnish conversation]
Hey man.
It’s me again.
I can’t really call myself Dude Who Just Came Back To Church After 10 Years Because Church Sucks anymore because I have been coming consistently for months now.
So I’ll just call myself Dude Who Just Came Back To Church After 10 Years And It Only Kinda Sucks Now.
Wow. Did you see this post?
Seriously?
Glad I don’t have your job.
Anyways.
This Thursday night.
You’re doing this Night Of Worship.
What’s that supposed to mean?
Shouldn’t you call it like, Night Of Worship Through Responding To God With Singing and Guitar Solos or something?
I guess that would not make for a cool sticker or video.
But either way, I’m down!!!
But I have to be honest.
I’m a bit scared I’m going to be out of my league that night.
I mean, won’t all the pros come out?
Like that chick that screamed about 1:54 into the Amazing Love song on that Passion CD you gave me from like 8 years ago.
I’m only a minor league singing worshipper dude.
I have a feeling the ballers are coming out.
But I’m just going to be me ok?
No harmonizing. No pre service stretching. No comparing worship leaders. No expectations.
I’m just coming to tell God how much I am starting to like Him.
Sincerely,
Dude Who Just Came Back To Church After 10 Years And It Only Kinda Sucks Now.
Read his first 3 letters here.
And Here.
And Here.
I’m a little hesitant too and I’ve been in church ALL my life. But it’s been mostly straight-laced fundamentalist Baptist churches. Churches in which I spent many, many years thinking that I had a relationship with God. Turns out I didn’t and now I do.
Hey Dude Who Just Came Back To Church After 10 Years And It Only Kinda Sucks Now, that girl who screams on the Passion CD scares the crap outta me everytime I listen to it…so don’t worry…you’re not alone.
i think it should be a requirement for every worship leader to read these.
they are definitely a bit of the inspiration for my latest post.
http://infinitelypossible.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/thoughts-that-accompany-yawns/
(yes, i am trying to get blog hits. but i also want to get people to think)
as a [young] worship leader, i definitely get pretty egotistic at times. i think the biggest thing that i have realized is that its not about how high i can sing or how well i play the music. i’m just presenting another avenue that GOD can reach people through. it doesn’t matter how good or bad i am as long as the congregation connects with the words and gets something out of it other than a catchy tune and a great performance. of course, those are great ways to get people to pay attention, but once you have that attention, you need to know what to do with it.
this is turning into a small blog post in and of itself, so i think i’ll stop now. ha
So, are these letters real?
‘…no harmonizing…’
Classic.
I love these.
I wonder what “Dude who’s been raised in church his whole life” would say..