The Journey Begins

Last night I had the awesome opportunity to have great friends over to my house to begin to pray into the vision God's given me for The Worship Studio and raising up the artists! We shared our hearts, our unique journey's that brought us to where we are now and our dreams for the future. It's always so cool to me how God brings people together with like vision to accomplish His purposes in the earth. We were all blown away by the divine synergy in the room last night.

Tom Tanner, my pastor at Riverstone Church, preached an incredible message on Sunday on the vision of our church, where we were going and who we were called to be as a body. He referenced a sermon he preached years ago about 3 kinds of churches/people: wave watchers, wave riders and wave makers. Wave watchers are the people who like to be around the waves, chase the waves, run away from the waves, complain about the waves, comment on the waves and examine the waves. Wave riders love the adventure of riding the waves - they love to get wet, and get in the middle of the water. They love the adventure of riding the waves of life and God.

Wave makers on the other hand are many times never seen. Waves don't begin on the surface - they begin in the depths of the ocean with groanings and rumblings way out at sea. Eventually what the earth has been groaning and rumbling for produces waves that are seem miles and miles away on the surface for others to enjoy. Tom believed that we were such a church. That analogy struck me in relation to The Worship Studio. That's who we are called to be - wave makers.

There are so many artists out there who are wave riders - who long to use their giftings in the adventure of the Kingdom of God - but for most, they have no venue, no place, no opportunity to flow both skillfully and prophetically in the Glory of God. Our role as The Worship Studio is to begin, with the power of the Holy Spirit, to create a wave - a tsunami - that will elevate the vision, the arts and the artist within the Body of Christ to a place where they can flow in what God's calling them to do - reveal his Glory in the earth! We know full well that we are groaning and rumbling in the depths right now for generations to come that we may never see. We're praying and laying the foundation for a work that will have lasting impact. This is the work and the passion of our lives - to see the Glory of God revealed in the earth and to see the arts and artists redeemed for the purposes of God's Kingdom.

So the journey begins... it's overwhelming, the vision God's given us as a leadership team - and yet, we don't want it any other way. If it was too easy, it wouldn't be God! The the vision arise!