Just Two Things

At some point you have likely felt God’s call and leading to use your talents for ministry. He has given you a message. Loud and clear. 

Take what I gave you, and get to work.

So we set about figuring out how to get out there and do what God told us. But along the way, we can get lost. We can put our focus on the wrong things, things He never brought into the conversation in the first place.

So let’s focus on the two things God HAS told us to do.

How Excellence Conquers the Industry vs. Ministry Debate

What debate you ask?

Every week, someone asks me how to get a record deal, thinking that MUST be the way they start down the path in Christian music ministry. (By the way, asking for one is one of the ways you probably WON’T get a record deal…)

So the debate is, if I want to have a worldwide ministry, won’t I need to be signed to some big company in the music industry? Otherwise I will wither and die, playing my guitar to old folks in assisted living centers, and for my mom who loves my stuff. Oh yeah, and on Youtube (watch me stare into the camera uncomfortably).

Tell you what, let’s leave the industry aside for a moment and talk about something else that’s much more likely to become part of your music and ministry than a record deal, and that’s excellence.