In this chapter, Tom Krauter talks about the twenty first century version of an American musician. He goes into detail talking about how they work hard and study all of their life but the minute they achieve their goal they become arrogant. Even with christian singers today, some are not staying rooted in their faith, they are focusing more on heroifying themselves and not God. This leads Tom into his topic for this chapter, Having a Humble and Servant Attitude. If we don't remain humble while serving God are we not hypocrites? God says to always remain humble and to never think of yourself has higher than any other brother or sister beside you because we are all children of God. To emphasizes this idea, Krauter says, "Ultimately the Lord does not need our talents, He wants our hearts," (Krauter pg.193).
I really enjoyed reading this chapter because Krauter really goes into how we should all remain humble in this process of worship. We shouldn't be thinking that one person is better than the other, but we should be focusing more on God. We can be servants in many ways, but through worship we must lead other people and if we are just thinking about ourselves and not God, others are not going to focusing on God either. Remaining humble is the most important factor through this process of worship to me and i thoroughly enjoyed reading this chapter because it really does make you reflect upon yourself.
I definitely agree that it is very important to remain humble as a worship leader. It is so difficult to do this, because we are all very skilled musicians. Just because not everyone can be a musician, doesn't mean we need to act like we are better than everyone else.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it's not about who's better than who, but rather about whether we are lovingly serving others in God's name. I like how you pointed out that even Christian artists forget about God and are heroifying themselves instead. We should be careful not to do that.
ReplyDeleteHey Terra-Lynn! I love what you said about how our goal shouldn't be to heroify ourselves but to do everything to bring glory to God. It's so easy to get caught up in our own accomplishments and our own talents. But we forget that God is the reason we even have those talents.
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