In music discipleship (click to see series), we want to grow in faith – to know God more and more. For musicians and others involved in worship regularly, much of our sacrifice in worship is “doing”.
Nothing fundamentally wrong about the “doing”. From the story of Mary and Martha (Luke 10:38-42), there is a principle that it is not so much what we do that matters most, it is how we approach the doing, and maybe an element of the timing of it, or its priority over others.
The discipleship model is about the Great Commission, part of which is to “go” and to “make disciple” etc., the crucial thing is we don’t become the boss, we are doing the “do” in the name of, with reference to, and (borrowing and transplanting a mathematical logic “if an only if”) “for and only for”, God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Whatever metaphor we use, we will make regular “call home” to God.
There is another aspect of “doing” that may have become “too much” that we sideline God in our worship. There is a tendency we expect others in our worship team to “commit” enough to be part of leading of worship; this can be the other way round: that we want to keep volunteering to show commitment, that we retain our “space”, “place” or “position”. In any case, we don’t want to imply we want to stop or reduce our time to lead worship.
In Music discipleship, a crucial point is to take time out and spend it with God. “Do nothing” with regard to the usual activities and responsibilities of leading worship. But not “do nothing” with everything else; to rest, to pray, to journey with God much more than “at the same time” with leading worship. We can be Mary sometimes, but we ought to be able to be Martha other times; and vice versa.
