Revelations from a Past-Life Regression
Anyone who knows me from long ago would have told you they could see it coming from miles away.
I stumbled across this book in the library on the 'simple' science of getting what you want. It dealt extensively on logical fallacies, which are arguments and reasoning that seem sound but are actually wrong. Very wrong.
I was like an addict on rehab suddenly offered the drugs he craved.
I couldn't help myself.
I devoured the book in one sitting and, before I knew it, I was brought back to my past-life as a Philosophy major in NUS. Those were the days when I was first taught about logical fallacies, learned to dissect (and demolish) arguments just for the fun of it… and couldn't carry on a normal conversation with anyone outside of the Philo department for longer than five minutes!
("Err… JJ, there's not much difference between then and now…")
Anyway, one of the fallacies is called Post hoc ergo propter hoc, which is the idea that because event A happened before event B, therefore event A is the cause of event B. And this fallacy has caused the greatest amount of confusion in the Worship Training scene.
For example, an unprepared person gets thrown into the deep end of the pool and has to play an instrument for worship. This person plays badly (out of time and many wrong chords) and the presence of God is felt in an intense way.
Conclusion? The poor playing caused the presence of God to be made manifest in a powerful way.
So we should play poorly too. Shouldn't we?
Another example: a pastor comes back from an overseas conference at a church experiencing powerful revival. He had a very personal encounter with God as the host church sang one of their home grown songs 20 times in a row.
Conclusion: if we sing the same worship song 20 times in a row we'll have the same revival too.
The examples are extreme for the sake of showing you the fallacy in action. If we decided to be a lot more discerning, however, we'll find that there are other questions we can and should ask.
Taking the second example: was the revival because of the song? Or the repetition? Or the people singing the song? Or the worship leader leading the song? Or the sermon the pastor preached before the song (earlier in the service, the night before or last week)?
Or from having as many of those factors as possible coming together?
The exact song may have played a crucial role. Or it may not, and all the impact may have been caused by something else. The musicians may have messed up the music that time. So do we say that the revival happened because the musicians messed up? Or in spite of it?
As you can easily see, it's very difficult to shift through all these possibilities and identify the immediately relevant ones. And one reason for that is because people do not have a comprehensive and sound worship ministry paradigm to help them think through the issues and factors.
That is why my book The Invisible Worship Musician is so powerful. It gives a comprehensive and sound worship ministry paradigm that helps you to:
1) understand and explain what works for worship ministry and why; AND
Anyone who knows me from long ago would have told you they could see it coming from miles away.
I stumbled across this book in the library on the 'simple' science of getting what you want. It dealt extensively on logical fallacies, which are arguments and reasoning that seem sound but are actually wrong. Very wrong.
I was like an addict on rehab suddenly offered the drugs he craved.
I couldn't help myself.
I devoured the book in one sitting and, before I knew it, I was brought back to my past-life as a Philosophy major in NUS. Those were the days when I was first taught about logical fallacies, learned to dissect (and demolish) arguments just for the fun of it… and couldn't carry on a normal conversation with anyone outside of the Philo department for longer than five minutes!
("Err… JJ, there's not much difference between then and now…")
Anyway, one of the fallacies is called Post hoc ergo propter hoc, which is the idea that because event A happened before event B, therefore event A is the cause of event B. And this fallacy has caused the greatest amount of confusion in the Worship Training scene.
For example, an unprepared person gets thrown into the deep end of the pool and has to play an instrument for worship. This person plays badly (out of time and many wrong chords) and the presence of God is felt in an intense way.
Conclusion? The poor playing caused the presence of God to be made manifest in a powerful way.
So we should play poorly too. Shouldn't we?
Another example: a pastor comes back from an overseas conference at a church experiencing powerful revival. He had a very personal encounter with God as the host church sang one of their home grown songs 20 times in a row.
Conclusion: if we sing the same worship song 20 times in a row we'll have the same revival too.
The examples are extreme for the sake of showing you the fallacy in action. If we decided to be a lot more discerning, however, we'll find that there are other questions we can and should ask.
Taking the second example: was the revival because of the song? Or the repetition? Or the people singing the song? Or the worship leader leading the song? Or the sermon the pastor preached before the song (earlier in the service, the night before or last week)?
Or from having as many of those factors as possible coming together?
The exact song may have played a crucial role. Or it may not, and all the impact may have been caused by something else. The musicians may have messed up the music that time. So do we say that the revival happened because the musicians messed up? Or in spite of it?
As you can easily see, it's very difficult to shift through all these possibilities and identify the immediately relevant ones. And one reason for that is because people do not have a comprehensive and sound worship ministry paradigm to help them think through the issues and factors.
That is why my book The Invisible Worship Musician is so powerful. It gives a comprehensive and sound worship ministry paradigm that helps you to:
1) understand and explain what works for worship ministry and why; AND
2) forecast, with reasonable accuracy, if (and how) any new factors may or may not influence the worship experience of the congregation.
Without it, we are simply groping in the dark. We end up tossed back and forth by the waves, blown here and there by every wind of 'teaching' and chasing every new craze and the latest worship fads that come along.
Now I am not saying that the Invisible Worship Musician paradigm is the ONLY viable worship ministry paradigm available. However, I do sincerely believe it gives you the best results, and puts you in a better position to understand and evaluate other worship ministry paradigms too.
That's about it for now. Stay tuned, I'll be sharing with you soon about how you can discover other worship ministry paradigms that can greatly benefit your ministry.
Be blessed!
Without it, we are simply groping in the dark. We end up tossed back and forth by the waves, blown here and there by every wind of 'teaching' and chasing every new craze and the latest worship fads that come along.
Now I am not saying that the Invisible Worship Musician paradigm is the ONLY viable worship ministry paradigm available. However, I do sincerely believe it gives you the best results, and puts you in a better position to understand and evaluate other worship ministry paradigms too.
That's about it for now. Stay tuned, I'll be sharing with you soon about how you can discover other worship ministry paradigms that can greatly benefit your ministry.
Be blessed!
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