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Family in worship groups?
Started by Adrian28 on 7 October 2008 - 9:16pm
| 7 October 2008 - 9:16pm | |
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Hi, I wanted to know if anyone had advice for me, or had similar situations with their family and how to be cohesive at home, in practices and especially when leading? Any help would be much appreciated. God bless |
What is it your mum is doing 'wrong'?
And what is her role in the band?
Mother-son relationships can be very complex - I wonder whether you find it hard to come to agreements in other areas too? I certainly do with my mum!!
Hi Timski,
I don't actually think my mum is doing anything wrong, it's just that we seem to have slightly different idea's and worship is a passionate thing in both our church and family.
My mum leads the singing in the group most weeks, and obviously in other areas there are some disagreements but we aren't normally too bad, however when it comes to the worship it becomes even harder.
God bless
Ad
Ad,
Yeh we sometimes have family problems in our worship group - with me, my sister and my mum! and also my friend, her brother, and their mum.
It's just one of those things we have to accept and get over in a way.
We've all come to the agreement to leave stuff that's been happening at home, at home (like not bringing in arguments that we've just been having before we got there).
And, of course, we do have many disagreements about certain things. And like people keep trying to pressurise me into doing stuff on the drums that i really don't feel comfortable about doing, and sometimes i end up telling them point blank that i won't do it unless i feel ready (or sometimes i even surprise them by doing it on the sunday and then no-one can stop smiling through the rest of that song lol). But yeh we do have difficulty coming to agreements and such in our worship group.
So I know where you're coming from really.
One of the most important and helpful things you can do is pray, and don't be afraid to ask others to pray for you and/or your mother and/or the worship group as a whole.
Hebrews 12:28-29 says 'So let us be thankful, because we have a kingdom that cannot be shaken. We should worship God in a way that pleases him with respect and fear, because our God is like a fire that burns things up.'
Worship is about God, not us, but being worship leaders we have to try and make things work in a way that pleases God AND helps others worship - this is one difficult area. And yes, we may all get into disputes about it, and find it hard to agree on certain things, but if we pray about it, God will give us guidance. And you both need to recognise that we all lead in different ways. Maybe find a way to comprimise and sort things out, because doing something different sometimes helps people, but at other times distracts them from the heart of worship.
Don't know if any of that helped, but you already got me praying for you =]
God Bless
Nic
xxx
Nic,
Thanks alot for the advice, and the verse it is really helpful.
It's nice to know someones praying for you and I hope that as a worship group we do manage to enable others in their worship.
Thanks alot
God bless
Ad
Ad,
No problems, anytime =]
Yeh, and it's also nice to know that there's someone else out there going through what you are as well sometimes.
(sorry about the mega-post... i just had a lot to say :) lol)
God Bless
Nic
xxx