Recently I had a
band member ask me when I was going to kick the “old guys” out of the
band? I believe he was being somewhat
facetious, but I think he was also a little curious about what would happen to
some of the older members of the team as new people come along. I’ll be honest with you. I hadn’t really thought much about it.
Because when I
look at our worship teams (we have 2 Sunday morning teams) and the Worship Choir, I don’t see age. What I see is
what the church is supposed to look like.
Age-wise our worship teams go from 13 years old to some in their early
to mid-fifties. That’s a 40 year
gap! The Worship Choir is even more than
that. It’s about 50 years! But isn’t that what the church is supposed to
look like? People of all ages working
together to serve the Lord. Shouldn’t
that be the model for all ministries?
Having multiple generations of people serving together, locked arm in
arm in ministry.
So many times
when you look at churches, everything they do is segregated by age. Don’t get me wrong, I believe a lot of the
segregation happens because people feel more comfortable around others their
same age. But there’s something powerful
and moving about people of different ages coming together for ministry. It’s the Titus 2 model of the older teaching
the younger. But along with that, there’s also the
element of the younger invigorating the older.
They really do help each other.
So, to answer the
original question of kicking the “old guys” out of the band; no, I don’t
believe I’ll be doing that. Once you are
in the band, you’re in it until you are ready to step away from it. And I’ll leave that up to the individual
members to recognize when that time comes for them.
Until then I’ll just keep scheduling people the best I can while giving
as many people as possible an opportunity to get involved.
Worship Big!
Brad
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