Friday, May 11, 2007

Raise Them Up

Every once in a while my wife tells me I have "man eyes". She is from the south so this phrase is not to be confused with the sandwich spread. What she means is, I have the ability to look directly at something and not see it! I think that's a man trait. I have this problem when I'm trying to find my keys... in her purse. Of course everyone does this occasionally I hope. Yeah, I'm going somewhere with this. I can say with all confidence, someone could have looked right at me when I was 20 and completely overlooked the undeveloped potential God had placed in my life. But thank God there were those who didn't - my wife being the primary visionary. Pastor's be on the look out. There is probably undeveloped talent right under your nose. I say this to those currently searching for musicians in pursuit of developing worship within the local church. If your church cannot pay for a full time worship leader then what about raising someone up? Give a kid an encouraging word and you will have a friend. Give him or her a guitar and you may have given someone a past time. But give someone a guitar and train this person... you may end up with a worship leader. Who will you invest in? Who will you train? You say, "if I knew about music I'd lead myself". That may not be necessary. I was talking with someone recently who told me, they would be very interested in training someone to lead worship within the local church. This gives me hope that there are options in all this that have gone untapped. The Lord will help us connect people with needs. I believe that.

Hang in there!
Tim Covert

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