What will change.

I love drums.

More and more I get the chance to express myself to God through music in a conventional worship setting. My medium has been and will continue to be drumming as long as He will allow it.

Sometimes I really think it is too good to be true. Because every year I see people anywhere from right at home to around the southeast who have a need for Jesus Christ, but life has gotten in the way. But it’s become kind of easy for me, because my job is now literally to worship God, lead others in worshiping God, and invest in their lives when outside of that conventional worship setting.  It makes me wonder how quickly I would fall were I not constantly around such environments. I know my youth group in high school used to go to camps sort of like the ones I now play at, and many in that group have now fallen beyond the boundaries of what I consider ‘living for Christ’. To say the least.

That experience from my life burdens me everytime I help in leading a camp or youth/church gathering. Will this be different? Will they change because of this? Without the message of worship every night, without the constant investment and interaction of peers, ‘the band’, ‘the speaker’, and others, how will life be affected and how will it be different?

The sheer impact of the words “to live is Christ, and to die is gain” has only drowned in American culture thus far. Sometimes I wonder if Paul was really saying ‘anything except a life full of Christ is wasted -it’s really no life at all’. Its a narrow-minded way of thinking, but it only makes sense that the rest of the world won’t like it.