For the past couple weeks, I have been battling with music ideas and vision. I know where my heart hurts with passion for the sake of Jesus Christ being glorified, but how to place myself on a life long journey in the correct direction seems a little more difficult…committed if you will:)
Anyways, I am constantly in a state of recruiting musicians from craigslist.com, campuses and many other venues. I meet with new musicians almost on a daily basis and am continually building relationships with others. Building a worship band for a new church is one of the hardest things to do considering we don’t have the multitudes to pick from in our church body, and when one recruits musicians, he is also recruiting church members.
So…I have been meeting many musicians. Period. A very select few have been tingling in the back of my head. 2 that don’t attend Epic Life Church, but seem to repeat the same words to me that my heart is lead towards…phrases like, “I want to do nothing less than change the world via music”, “It hurts to not do music”, “This music needs to be brought to the dark”, “What I wouldn’t give to put sweat and blood into a band focused on Jesus’ vision for us”. So, I began to think and pray about the ways to be wise, not selfish, and also most effective in my ministry.
This last Sunday, a musician I met a couple weeks ago came to our service. I was excited because I knew he was a professional sound engineer for 30 years and played keys/synth professionally for many years as well. Long story short, this guy (now my friend:) asks me if he can take me out to lunch. Hiding my excitement, I said, “yes”.
While at lunch, he begins to explain to me many of the things that he has been praying for and his heart for creating music to invite people into the presence of the Lord, and began using many earlier phrases that linger in my brain. Long story short, he asks me to consider some things…basically telling me that he wants to start a band with me. hmm.
I’m not trying to go too long, so long story short…I’m gonna start this band with these guys, all of which whom have toured for years, played professionally, and are significantly older and more skillful than myself, and yet for some reason, these doods see me as a leader. funny.
Anyways, we are going to start writing and playing together very soon. We are still in need of an electric guitar player, which we are praying for and really seeing how the Lord will guide us with this. This could get super interesting/ exciting.
Funny enough…I hung out with a stellar electric guitar player tonight who I am just getting to know, and he asked in general while we were driving with a bunch of guys, “I wonder if Epic Life would let me play for their band”, and I turned around and said, “well, you could ask the guy who makes the decisions for that”. (I was referring to myself:)
oh…ps…I entitled this “project”: [Epicology] just because it sounds sweet, and our entire team is all about creating something epic, but at the same time, never wanting to get to a place that we can refer to our creation as completed, thus we are always in a state of growing and learning…and thus, “the study of epic”.
