We've started a new series. I'm kind of excited about it. It's covering Life Stewardship--looking at all that God has given us and seeing at what God would have us do with it.
I get kind of nervous about what I'm gonna find out about myself. This last Sunday we had what we call a 2nd tier leadership meeting. We're thinking about putting a survey out there and asking people what they think about about how we do things at Mosaic. So, we polled the 2nd tier leader for their answers and the wording of the questions.
Of course Worship Music was first on the chopping block. That's my area so I was nervous and ultimately left the meeting very frustrated. It seemed that the survey was going to lean toward consumerism...I thought we covered that when we first started this project.
This morning though as I went to God about it, the scripture I read was even more frustrating...it was in Leviticus about how God and the people responded to an offering that was acceptable. There was all these details in regard to how the offering was to be prepared, what could and couldn't be offered and what was unacceptable and the penalties for having an unacceptable offering. It was maddening and needless to say I didn't feel up to the task...how can I meet all those exacting standards to please God, to offer an acceptable sacrifice of worship?
It hit me as we were coming up with wording for the survey in staff meeting. Christ is the only sacrifice acceptable to God...now, for us, for me. The best I can offer God, as far as Worship at Mosaic is concerned and how I direct the flow of services is to lift up Jesus Christ. That will shape how we word the survey, too. That's needs to be the bottom line for all we do at Mosaic.
