With a commitment to excellence, I desire heart-felt worship from those involved in the Creative Arts. I desire not only to make good music, but to positively impact lives for Christ and facilitate worship of our Lord.
I desire to be intentional in all we do in the Creative Arts. Am not interested in promoting rote experiences, so each gathering is uniquely programmed. Elements are varied, as are styles, in order to best facilitate worship. I want to be sensitive to the preferences of the worshippers all the while prompting them to engage in thoughtful participation in each element of the service, even when the element is outside their personal paradigm. Programming can be described as “laying out a feast…many different courses to the meal…hopefully most will partake of each course…” While we enjoy the feast, this feast is not really for us, but for God.
It has been described that “music is the tip of the two-edged sword, that pierces man’s heart and allows the Word to come in.” In the process of using the arts in worship, our relationship to God is primary. We want to praise and glorify God and respond to the promptings of His Spirit as we worship. However, our relationship to others is also important in the process and facilitating those relationships is our secondary goal. We do this by continually reminding each other that the process is as important as the product, that success is internal rather than external and thus is difficult to measure and that God wants each of us to live up to our God-given potential.
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