I visited my old church (update)

After a month or so of dancing around the whole issue, I was finally able to speak with the current worship leader of my old church. Keep in mind that this is after more than one member of the worship team asked during my visits there if I was going to re-join the team. After more than a few members of the congregation asked if I was going to come back and play for them. After I had spoken once to the worship leader and offered to help in any way I could.

The new worship leader, who is also the pastors wife, informed me that while she and the team were aware that they needed some help, she wasn’t comfortable with bringing in an”outsider” in an “expert capacity”. She then went on to describe the vision that she and her husband have for the church.

They don’t want to take the church in any kind of “streamlined, or corporate worship” direction. Huh? She wants to create a worship style that celebrates both old and new, “keeping one foot in the past, and one foot in the future” Huh?I wasn’t sure if I was hearing her correctly, but apparently I was.

She ended our discussion by inviting me to join the worship team! I smiled and politely declined.

I wonder what the future holds for this church?

Time will tell.