Ways to contact JJ

I am working out a communications system for my training. It's gonna involve my blog, the announcements page on my website (www.invisibleworshipmusician.com/announcements.htm) and the forums I am involved in. This will allow us to communicate more easily, instead of being totally dependent on email.

In other words, if you see a lot of announcements on my blog or site but you're not getting it on your email, you'll need to contact me to sign you up for my email mailing list. There may have been some error in the email address you gave the first time.

In case you need to contact me before that system is fully set up, I am a member of the forum at www.worshiptherock.com. You can join it free-of-charge and join in the discussions there, and you can also contact me through that forum if you can't get me through email. (And say that I invited you, it makes me look good). :)

Ok, that's all for now. Be blessed, everyone!

Nicolaitan Email

One thing I do to keep my finger on the pulse of the worship scene worldwide is to sign up for worship lists and forums. Just reading the same questions over and over again from different people all over the world is a great way to see what are the issues that bother the people in the body of Christ when it comes to worship ministry.

So when my book came out I also sent an announcement to ONE of the lists I subscribe to. Why didn't I send it out to more? Dunno, didn't feel right. Anyway, I got this email last week from someone who subscribed to that list, reproduced here for you in exact detail.

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57.00 dollars for an ebook your insane

dont you feel your gouging the body a little bit here

bob sorges books can be found for 99 cents

judson cornwall let us praise abebooks com a dollar

and those are amazing powerful life changing books

go buy those insteads of hajis 57.00 ebook

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I took a quick trip over to my mailing list, the one that emails people links to the extracts from my book. Just as I suspected, this person didn't even check out my extracts before coming to a conclusion about my book. So at that moment I had to choose what to do. I chose to interpret Proverbs 26:4-5 (NIV) this way:

"Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself." – Don't answer to this person in the same tone and attitude. I've to answer him at a higher level than he emailed me at.

"Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes." This means that in my email I've to show him clearly his foolishness, or he'll think he was right and what he did was fine.

Let's face it, if you read my usual writing, you know it'll take me a lot of strain and effort to write at that guy's level, using his tone and attitude. Just for the exercise I decided to pretend I had a humungous lobotomy. If I had the lobotomy and a stroke (lost the common sense and courtesy part of my brain) and wanted to answer him according to his folly (same tone and attitude) it'll look like this:

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your insane yurself

u didnt even read the free pages u think u noe if the book is good

go read your powerful life changing books if they teach u to judge befor you get all yur facts rite

if money is an issue go get a job instead of emailing what you dunno bout

or if you want my book free ask nicely I sometimes do charity work haha

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But of course, I didn't reply to him that way. Here's my spur of the moment reply

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Hi, R!

> 57.00 dollars for an ebook your insane

No, not really. (nevermind what my wife thinks.) :) (following proverbs 12:16)

> dont you feel your gouging the body a little bit here

If you want to see what is my opinion of gouging the body, read the most recent post on the worship business
at www.jvworship.blogspot.com. If THAT doesn't get your blood boiling...   (Using proverbs 15:1)

> bob sorges books can be found for 99 cents
> judson cornwall let us praise abebooks com a dollar
> and those are amazing powerful life changing books

And you can say that my book isn't. Without reading it. Hmmmm... There's a
verse in Proverbs 18:13 about those who answer before listening.
You want life-changing at a discount? Get THAT verse. (You do have a bible of your own, right?)       

(ok, that last part wasn't nice of me. I admit that)

Hey R, let me tell you something about what I am doing. I am writing a tough book, one that people need to read.
And I am putting the whole thing on a money-back guarantee. Everytime anyone buys the book I have to pay Paypal.
That means I make a loss if anyone asks for a refund.

IF you are involved in worship ministry (not just a bystander) get the book. If you don't get results from it (or even if
you do but you still don't like me) ask for the refund. The ebook is still in YOUR possession (I can't take it back),
I'll have made a loss, and you'll still have the insights, revelations and knowledge I paid for with not just money, but
sweat and tears.

> go buy those insteads of hajis 57.00 ebook

Let me ask YOU a question then. How much would YOU price an ebook written by a friend of yours if you know that
the message in this ebook is difficult for people to accept, but has been used by your friend over and over again to not
only lead worship himself but teach total newbies to do the same. And do it effectively, over and over again. How much
would you tell your friend to charge for that?

And how much would that ebook be worth if lots of the other material around not only doesn't work, but blames the
user ("What I teach you doesn't work for you, not because I am teaching you the wrong things, but because you're not
called to the worship ministry or there's something wrong with your heart").

What price would you tell your friend to charge for the book if you know he will get loads of grief, accusations and
misunderstandings, often from people who are perfectly happy with the status quo and don't want growth? And you,
personally, what would you say to your friend who knows that he will get grief for what he's trying to do for the body of
Christ, but still goes ahead and does it anyway, because many have been blessed, but he still wants to bless even
more?

Thanks, R, for taking the time to email your thoughts. I respect that a whole lot more than people who would
criticise me behind my back. You had the courage to bring up the matter with me directly. I respect that. 

And I also appreciate the opportunity to clarify my thoughts on this. I mean, you can guess that what I just emailed
above isn't what I should put on my website, yah?

Finally, R, I'd like to get your permission to quote YOUR email and my reply on my blog. It's something that the rest
of my students need to read. Are you ok with that?

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Yup, that was my email reply. I actually wanted to use his email for a generic post on Proverbs, but the fellow actually emailed me again with shocking news – he's actually a pastor. Hence the main point of this post.

I teach the Bible, and I know for this season that God has entrusted me with insights and understanding for the body of Christ in the area of worship ministry. It's not my responsibility at this season to teach about other areas. But that doesn't mean that what I have to share doesn't apply to other areas of life too.

One of the things I have taught about in my book is about the Nicolaitan spirit. I described that spirit and how it manifests itself in the worship ministry in some detail in my book, but I didn't mention this one symptom of the Nicolaitan spirit: behaving as if one is above the rules. In other words, "the rules that apply to others don't apply to me".

Under the conventional worship ministry paradigm, which claims that effectiveness was based on the heart, it was difficult to be effective in worship ministry and not fall prey to pride. Think about it, people kept saying that the heart was the key factor for success, which implied that if you are effective in leading worship, you had a heart that God was pleased with. Not easy to resist pride if you believe that.

If a worship musician or leader from that point gets infected with the Nicolaitan virus, it can manifest in various ways, such as skipping sermons ("I don't need to go, since I know the way to the presence of God") or missing practices, or not attending church when not serving in worship. Or in how he/she treats other people.

This principle also applies to ministry beyond the worship ministry too. We have in this situation a clear-cut example of a pastor who forgot that the wisdom from heaven is pure, peace-loving and considerate (James 3:17). God may be using this pastor powerfully in some ways, but Proverbs 18:13 still applies to every one of God's children, no matter how powerfully God uses him (or anyone else) in the ministry.

Or let me put it to you this way: if you are a father, would you put up with one of your children insulting another one of your children? Would you close one eye and say "it's ok, he's dedicated to my work and purposes, I can let him bash another one of my kids once in a while"?

Don't think so.

For those of you who have read my book, by the time you get to the last chapter you'll understand why you can say that my entire book is addressing the Nicolaitan spirit that often arises in the worship ministry. And though I explain loads of technical issues in considerable detail in the book, once you understand it you'll realize that leading and playing for worship is so embarrassingly simple there is absolutely no room for pride, much less the Nicolaitan spirit.

The true nature of worship ministry is diametrically opposed to the Nicolaitan spirit. Oftentimes, just exposing the Nicolaitan spirit is enough to break its hold. I don't know if there are any easy answers to dealing with the Nicolaitan spirit outside of the worship ministry, but I hope that if there are any God will entrust them to me as I continue to be faithful with dealing with it in a worship ministry situation.

Well, this is the email I mentioned in my last post. I know some of you may disagree with me over how I handled the situation. Anyway, I can't take back my reply to him, neither could he take back his first email to me. Of course if he asked me not to quote him I wouldn't have, not because he's a pastor (I didn't know that until he replied) but because he's a sibling-in-Christ, and I know God would prefer that I respect his feelings and remember that mercy triumphs over judgment.

And for those of you who are hesitating over getting my book because of the price, grab it now while it’s on a special offer. You can check on the special offer here at www.invisibleworshipmusician.com/successstory.htm. This offer expires 27th May 2008, so hurry!

And maybe next post I can get on with the Proverbs post I want to do, one that involved child development theories... Stay tuned!

14 years - What that means

Why 14 years?

If you’ve read my promotional materials, you’ll notice that I’d emphasize the fact that I’ve been in the worship ministry for more than 14 years. It’s not having one year’s experience 14 times. The time frame is VERY significant, as you’ll understand if you’ve been around the scene long enough or if you know the history of the worship scene. That’s what I’ll be explaining in this post.

As I said before, around the mid 90’s the floodgates of worship chaos were unleashed upon Singapore. The full effects began to really kick in about the late 90’s or so. (So far my research suggests that it was a worldwide phenomenon). Despite being a believer for more than 23 years by now, I only started regularly attending church from 1992 onwards. This meant that I had firsthand experience in the worship scene before AND after the changes.

Was there no performance music in church before? Of course there was! But it didn’t take centre stage as much as it did later. There were worship leaders who did worship albums that had SOME performance-type songs, but the majority of what they did was usable in church. At that time CCM (contemporary Christian Music) was beginning to rise in prominence (remember Jars of Clay, anyone?) and the music of CCM was NOT used in congregational worship.

What laid the groundwork for all the later confusion was the fact that even though worship music was more common during that season, no one clearly defined what made up worship music (in fact, as far as I know, I am the first person in the worship scene to seriously expound on the topic). That was okay then because we didn’t really have to choose between using worship music or performance music for worship at church at that time.

But when performance music hit the scene in a massive way we had a correspondingly massive problem. People couldn’t agree on whether it was just a new style which needed getting used to, or if there was something that just wasn’t right. In general the musicians and the younger people welcomed the shift (“what’s wrong with good music?”) while the more conservative people (the elders and deacons) weren’t too sure.

Some of them wanted to give the new music a chance, just as they gave the modern worship format a chance when it first started. Others felt that there was something wrong but couldn’t give any objective reasons for it. And so the musicians and the youth ignored their reservations and objections and happily embraced the new sound. And so it spread.

To top it all off, some of what came out in that time COULD still be used for church worship. If you had a continuum with pure worship music at one end and pure performance music at the other, what came out in that period of time was just slightly past the midpoint of the line. It could still work, but required more effort. Then as time passed the songs went more and more towards the performance end of the line.

Now if the elders, deacons and other conservatives at that time said “All this is great to listen to, but difficult for most people to sing in church, so just listen to the CDs but not try it in church”, who knows how the worship scene in Singapore (and everywhere else in the world) might have developed? Too bad, that didn’t happen. So as the new stuff grew in popularity, those with objections or concerns found themselves more and more in the sidelines, marginalized and ignored.

I started training people in worship music during the season when the tides started changing. You can guess how confusing it was for me. Just when I thought I had the rules all figured out, the game started changing. New songs started growing in popularity, and they presented a problem for me when doing training.

Try to imagine what it was like. I was teaching the elements of worship music using worship songs as examples, and because the number of new songs popular in church grew suddenly my song selection became more and more retro in the eyes of the students. Of course I wanted to use the newer songs, but I soon found that those new songs didn’t work that well for teaching the elements of worship music unless they were dumbed down considerably, and the musician in me resisted that.

Add to the mix the fact that some of those songs really needed tweaking (or a massive overhaul) to make them work at church level (I mentioned a few such songs in my chapter on Worship Music 101) you ended up with the dilemma of giving the customers what they hear from the CD (what they wanted, what they thought was worship music) or giving them what would work when they actually used those songs themselves. It was a tough situation. People were paying you to teach them what they wanted. But what if what they thought you should do is different from what they wanted? And you couldn’t explain why?

I know I come down hard on Praise and Worship Inc. (in my book, in this blog and every other chance I get), but I did have firsthand experience in trying to make a living in the Praise and Worship business. I know firsthand what it was like to TRY to balance out my ideals as a musician and worship trainer with the pressure of having my first son on the way, loads of stuff to buy, bills and mortgages to pay. And what made it more difficult for me was that I didn’t understand what was happening in the scene. It’s so much easier to make sense of the whole thing now after a few years have passed.

God’s timing is still the best. If I knew then what I knew now would I have made a significant difference? Don’t think so. Why? Because people would still want to try out performance music anyway. And it would take years for the whole thing to run its course and for people to realize that it’s not bearing fruit. I think the season for effective worship ministry and genuine worship music has pretty much arrived. And my book’s release is a key part of that, because it explains in a step-by-step, logical format what worship music is and why it works.

Of course in the course of my journey there were funny moments as well. There were times when I’d have to lead worship, draw up a song sheet with my ‘retro’ selection, and have people say it was boring. Then I’d lead worship and everyone would encounter God in a powerful way, then I’ll be seen as a great worship leader because I could work wonders with ‘boring’ songs. Hmmm, if I had to choose between interesting songs that don’t work or boring songs that work I’d take the boring songs any day. Not a difficult choice, right?

So that’s my take on the 14 years in worship ministry. Some of you have been in church for as long as me (or even longer). Or maybe you have your own experience and opinion on the way things changed and what it meant. If my sharing of my own thoughts and opinions has triggered off your own thoughts and recollections as well, I’d love to hear from you. Do email me what you have to share!

That’s all for now. In my next post I’ll share with you all an email I received a couple of days ago and how I replied to it. I promise you that you’ll find it interesting (the offensive, non-politically-correct, JJ kind of interesting). In the meantime, be blessed!

Junjie

More on the Worship Business

When people read the chapter on Praise and Worship Inc in my book, some may just think I am just against making money through the worship business. So let me clarify, I am NOT against making money in the worship business. If I was, why would I be selling my worship ministry e-book? I should be giving it away free! (and have it valued as much as everything else I’ve given away free…)

My attitude towards the praise and worship business is heavily influenced by Marc “Animal” MacYoung. He wrote this about the Martial Arts business.

“As we said earlier, we're capitalist swine. We do believe in a fair exchange of service or goods for money. And that is where you run into problems with common practices in many commercial martial arts schools. If you are paying for something, then what they are providing had better well be what you are supposedly buying.”

http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/MAbusiness.htm

And that has pretty much summed up my attitude towards the worship business.

That means I am totally FOR anything that does work and that does add value to other people’s lives. I unashamedly price my e-book higher than other worship books out on the market, because I know what I teach in my book is of comparable (or greater) value than what is out in the rest of the market. I totally support copyright and royalties to songwriters, because they don’t earn money unless what they wrote ministers to the Body of Christ. And how much they earn is in direct proportion (as far as humanly possible) to the degree they have blessed us.

Read the story behind Laura Klein’s ‘I Love You, Lord’ here at http://www.ccli.co.nz/articles/article.cfm?id=8 It is one of those fantastic songs that you have specially put in effort to mess up. I challenge you to read her story, consider how many people have been blessed by this song, and tell me to my face that she doesn’t deserve to be a millionaire…

Or how about Sondra Corbett Wood’s “I Worship You, Almighty God”? Read the story here at http://www.ccli.co.nz/articles/article.cfm?id=4 How much did she bless the Body of Christ by writing one of the very few ‘in-case-of-emergency-break-glass” songs? What I found touching is the implication that, through the royalties from this song, God provided financially for her even when she lived her life totally away from the Lord.

But this kind of quality isn’t largely what comes out in the praise and worship business. What usually comes out is a lot worse.

For example, when you think about ‘worship training’, what are you expecting? If you sign up for it, what do you REALLY want? A very broad scope overview that encompasses every aspect of your life but doesn’t change any part of it? Or specifics on leading or playing music for worship, whether at small group or congregational level?

Think very carefully about your reply. Because all too often people have entered the worship business arena with the desire to learn the specifics, the details on how to lead or play for worship. Then they are told that worship as a lifestyle encompasses so much more than that (true). Finally, they are given a whole load of stuff that briefly touches on all the spiritual, non-musical aspects of worship, but leaves them still unprepared to lead or play for worship (what they paid for in the first place).

And they feel proud that they have a more sophisticated, ‘in-depth’, deeper understanding of worship than the ones who CAN lead and play for worship. The Americans have this expression called ‘drinking the Kool-aid’…

While we’re on the topic, who is the best person to teach you all the non-musical, deep, spiritual stuff about worship anyway? Wouldn’t it logically be your pastor? You can guess from my e-book that I do not have an elitist view of the Bible (i.e. I do not believe that you have to be a pastor to interpret it correctly), but why pay for training and seminars to teach you what your pastor probably is already yearning to teach you if you ask him/her nicely enough?

Now about the teaching of 'worship' music, I feel bad saying what I have to say, because many of those teaching performance music as worship music sincerely believe that they are teaching worship music. Round about the mid ‘90s, the floodgates of worship chaos (trying to use performance music for worship) were unleashed in Singapore and it soon gathered momentum (will talk about this more in-depth some other time). I am currently trying to find out if this happened in other countries at around the same period of time.

What this means is all the people who came to Christ from the mid ‘90s onwards were brought up on performance music as worship music. That is all they knew, therefore that is what they sincerely teach. You can imagine how difficult it is for them to believe what they knew from the very beginning of their Christian lives is wrong. The thought would probably be totally incomprehensible.

But all the features and criteria for worship music (given in my book) still remain true and applicable, whether or not people believe or accept them. And those criteria mean that it is very much easier to play worship music than performance music. Which means it should NOT take that much time to train a person (even a music newbie) to play worship music.

What DO you need to play worship music anyway? You need to be able to keep a steady beat. As my first guitar teacher once said, think of your grandmother patting a baby to sleep. She doesn’t try any erratic tempos or odd time signatures. She just naturally, instinctively keeps a steady pulse that soothes an infant to sleep. So if your grandmother can do it…

If you want to play the piano for worship, you can be very adequately prepared to play knowing five common chord types. With 12 keys and 3 different finger positions (voicings or inversions) that gives you 180 chords and shapes to know in your right hand.

Many people at this point are screaming at me “Are you nuts, JJ? There’s no way I can memorize and remember 180 chords!” These screaming hysterically to me are the very same people who:

1) type on a computer keyboard that has 26 letters, 10 numerals, and lots of different punctuation marks (while a piano has only 12 different notes repeated over and over again)

2) type (often without looking) on a keyboard that has keys a fraction of the size of a piano key (more precision and accuracy required)

3) type in English, which has a working vocabulary of 2000-3000 words, for which they have memorized the spelling of probably 850 words. These words vary in length from 2 to more than 10 letters (‘complicated’ has 11) and are made up of combinations of 26 different letters. On the piano you are pretty much playing 3 notes in the right hand, 1 note in the left, and they are made up of combinations of only 12 different notes.

So if you can type in English (and pat a baby to sleep), you have what it takes to play the piano for worship.

Or how about the drums? I’ve had a number of people tell me that they could never play the drums for worship, because they couldn’t coordinate all their four limbs the correct way at the same time. These are people who had the confidence to get into a car and drive it (using coordination of the same four limbs) in traffic situations that fluctuate continually.

More importantly, if you mess up playing drums for worship, the worst thing that can happen is that you don’t play the next week. If you mess up driving a car, you AND your loved ones are in deep trouble. These people can still tell me with absolute sincerity that they have no confidence to play drums or take drum lessons.

The whole point of what I share here is that it should not take you that long to be ready to play for worship. I’ve seen people who’ve attended ‘worship’ music classes and practiced diligently for more than a year and still can’t play for worship. When I teach them what’s in the chapter Worship Music 101, they’re like people who sat at the driver’s seat of a car for years, prayed to have the right heart to drive a car to the glory of God, interceded with God about the heart condition of the rest of the people in the car they are driving, and were suddenly told they had to turn the ignition key to get the car to move…

Of course, I am not saying that there is no value in learning performance music. Right now I want to spend more time studying classical piano. Though understanding it has greatly improved my worship music sound (especially when looking at Baroque music) and my harmonizing, it is still very much performance music. I would highly recommend that keyboardists without classical training get at least a few months of training in it, because it is great for your personal growth as a musician.

And I’m seriously looking at voice training. My voice is more than fine for leading worship, though no one is gonna pay me to sing in the near future. But, just for growth’s sake, I’d love to improve my voice so that it can work in a performance setting.

If you are continuing to learn performance music, then recognize you are learning it and remember that worship music is a different skill set. If you are happy learning performance music, great! I’m happy for you! I just don’t want you to pay to learn worship music, get performance music instead, and think that there is something wrong with you because you still can’t play for worship, get it?

In other words, I don’t want you to pay for Japanese lessons, get Chinese lessons instead (but termed as Japanese), and think that you are not called to be a missionary in Japan because you don’t have the gifting (or anointing) to learn Japanese from taking Chinese lessons. Am I making sense here?

Anyway, that’s all for this topic. Stay tuned, my next post will probably be on why I keep talking about 14 years in the music ministry in my promotional materials. It’s actually very important. More next time…

Be blessed, everyone!

Underwhelm Yourself...

Hi, everyone!

As I last announced, my website is finally up. You can check it out at www.invisibleworshipmusician.com/index.htm For the time being I am only offering my e-book at that site, (together with a free e-course made up of extracts from my book), but I look forward to eventually offering even more stuff there as time goes by. Thanks to all of you who quickly grabbed the book at its initial offer price! The special offer is over, but the book is still a great deal at its full price. Once you get it (and tell me you get it, of course) those of you taking lessons from me can just move on to cover new ground or study the book’s material in greater depth.

That way we all save time and get more done, right?

Anyway, I finally got the site up, set up some advertising operations and took the break I said I’d take. I woke up later (didn’t set any alarm), worshiped God and spent a while on my very-neglected kenjutsu exercises. Boy, that was a workout!

One thing that struck me that day is that for many of us it only takes a bit of effort to bring about improvements in our lives. Many of us have areas in our lives which are totally neglected, and when something is totally neglected, it only takes a little more effort in that area to start seeing some improvement.

In other words, stop seeing things as all-or-nothing. Because if you do, you’ll often end up doing nothing…

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. (Romans 12:1, NIV)

And I’ve found great benefit in applying this concept to my health. There are people who have taken that above verse from Romans (offering our bodies) and combined it with Malachi 1:13 (don’t offer God blemished sacrifices) and come to the conclusion that we need to keep our bodies in optimal health or our bodies will be blemished sacrifices.

It’s a great idea, but pressurizing for most of us. Most of us already know what we need to do to take better care of our bodies, but because we see it as all-or-nothing, pretty much nothing gets done.

So instead of thinking “I need to drink 8 more glasses of water a day”, just think “I will drink ONE glass of water NOW.” Instead of thinking “I need to go gym 3 times each week” just think “I’m gonna do 10 push-ups NOW.” Instead of thinking “I need to eat more fruits and veg”, just think “I’ll eat ONE apple NOW”.

It’s all based on the idea I mentioned with some of you before, the idea of underwhelming yourself. Because when you underwhelm yourself with an activity, it is very easy to keep it up consistently. You then build momentum from that also. Using this concept I went from a totally sedentary lifestyle to working out 5 days a week (I still can’t believe it myself).

And I still don’t see myself as a disciplined person. If I REALLY was a disciplined person, I’d… (fill in the blank with all the activities in my life I still see as all-or-nothing)

This applies to music, prayer, Bible study, health and especially exercise. If you sat yourself down to name just ONE thing you could do NOW just to make your life a little more like what you’d want it to be, what would that one thing be? Get up and do it now. Drink the water, do the push-ups, eat the apple, read the 2 verses from Proverbs (that’s not bite-sized, that’s nibbling!); whatever it is, do it! You’ll finish it in 5 minutes, but you’ll feel so much better about yourself that you’re gonna do it again. And again. And maybe do it again tomorrow too. But let’s not think so far ahead. Let’s just look at the NOW.

Before long you’ll find that you can do stuff that will take you an hour a day (write a book, maybe?) and actually stick to it over a longer period of time. And from that point on, the momentum of change you build in your life will be surprising, even to yourself.

Just some thoughts I wanted to share with you all. I know that some of my recent posts have been quite generic, not specifically on the praise and worship ministry. But that’s gonna change. Because of my advertising efforts, over the next few days there will be a number of people introduced to this blog, people I don’t really know personally, and people who specifically want more information on praise and worship. So I’ll be talking about that more. I’ll also be answering questions that those who got my book bring up, and of course they will be more focused on the worship ministry as well.

So pray for me, people, that even my blogging will be done with wisdom from God, that I can minister through this blog even to siblings-in-Christ from overseas (some have names that look African, others from nationalities I don’t recognize YET).

Thanks, everyone! Be blessed!

The Book is released!

Hi, everyone!

Great news! My book, the Invisible Worship Musician, is now officially released!

Drawn from more than 14 years of serving in worship ministry and studying the Bible on worship, this 160+ page e-book is now available at www.invisibleworshipmusician.com/launch.htm

Check out what’s in the book by going to that page. And if you are involved with the worship ministry (or desire to get involved), move quickly. I am offering the Invisible Worship Musician at more than 50% off only from now until the 4^th of May.

The webpage is kinda rough, I know. For all of you who use Internet Explorer, the page may not look that good. Rest assured, I’ve tested the links and they are working. You may also email me your comments or questions at jvworship@gmail.com, ok?

Be blessed, everyone!