the humble road
For the Institute Of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephens University.Essentials Red Online Worship Theology Course with Dan Wilt
I have been tempted often to try to “reinvent the wheel” in regards to worship and ministry. A part of this is simply pride. Pride that says, I know what I’m doing, and those that came before me didn’t really know much about anything.
I remember the first time I lead a home group as a part of our church. I was recommended a certain book to use to lead the group. In my heart I thought I didn’t need it, I thought I could come up with stuff on my own. I could just open the Bible, it’s a big book, and teach whatever popped out at me. And in fact I did have this ability, but I kept asking myself why do I need to do this? Was it because I could come up with something better than the book? The answer I kept coming up with was, no.
In fact the book was very good, better than anything I could come up with on my own, especially in one week. So what was my problem then? Simply put, pride was my problem. Sadly I see this same thing in many facets of Christianity today. That instead of learning from the past, we would like to just figure it out for ourselves. Meanwhile others have done all the hard work for us. Others have trudged deeply through theology and doctrine in regards to everything under the sun. Why not learn from them?
Sadly much of the anti-authority attitude in the church today, and especially the emergent types, was caused by abuses of power by others in the past. We can all recall leaders falling into horrible sin and some that have gone into prison because of their crimes. But we must not swing the opposite way. We must stay the course, keep to the middle road… the humble road.
