There’s something that you can expect when you work with people.

Bank on it.

Put it on your calendar.

There will be drama.

Personalities clash. Opinions fly. It’s messy.

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Do you know it’s possible to be a worship leader and not really know God?

But you already know that. You know your own tendency to go through the motions. To fake it. To pretend your passion.

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From David: Today I have the honor of featuring one of my favorite bloggers, Michael Perkins. Michael is an incredibly kind, gifted, insightful leader who blogs over at The Handwritten. Check out his blog and follow him on Twitter. And don’t be shy when it comes to commenting. He won’t bite 😉

I pastor a church in Louisiana.

And up until a month ago my wife lead worship for us. You would think having your wife lead worship would be awesome (it is), but it’s difficult when she’s not called to lead worship.

To be honest she was filling a need. And she was coming dangerously close to burning out.

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Lift up your eyes and look.

See the 80s rock & roll guitarist at the altar checking out your pedal board. He wants to talk to you about the good ole days.

Right beside him is the 14 year old, punk rock drummer twirling his sticks.

He doesn’t want to talk as much as he wants to sit behind your drum kit and show you how it’s done. But he’ll just want a few more toms and a double bass pedal before he does.

It’s the new guys.

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For those of you who downloaded my ebook yesterday, thank you.

Thank you for serving your local church so faithfully. Thanks for being a visionary leader. And thanks for helping make this community what it is. I appreciate you.

Today I wanted to present a follow up post to the message in Beyond Sunday.

There’s always a tendency among visionary leaders to lead from their task lists – to plow through and get things done. Many call it “hustle”.

It’s the place where we stop depending on God and simply work hard to achieve.

We forget that “all things are possible” with God and simply buckle down and work hard to accomplish goals.

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