10 Days in Matty 10: Day 9

So again, it’s been a while since our last visit into Mathew 10. Let’s pick up where we left off.

Onward to Day 9 of “Ten Days in Matty Ten.”

This one may turn out to be a bit touchy. But I’m seriously convicted about this, and I feel like it’s the right thing to do.

“What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.” Matthew 10:27

Jesus tells his disciples to keep nothing a secret. He wants them to share everything they have learned, are learning, and will learn. That seems pretty obvious right? Ok, it’s easy to keep nothing a secret in worship, just sing songs about everything. That’s not what I’m talking about.

I’m not talking about sharing what you learn. I’m talking about sharing what you have. Specifically, sharing media between churches. I’m talking about sharing graphics, videos, music, resources, anything. Don’t keep it all for yourselves.

Or, just as bad, don’t make it a profit for yourself. I hate seeing churches that literally sell their graphics and videos. They sell it in packages, or online, or by the video, or whatever. I’ve even seen a church that sold their set lists! They packaged a years worth of songs they did in their services and sell it!

I hate seeing that, especially because they literally charge you $200 for that crap! It’s ridiculous. It’s a rip off!

It also kind of reminds me of that thing that pissed Jesus off when started throwing around tables and yelling at people. Sound kind of similar.

But I really do HATE it when churches do that. I have a huge problem with this for a couple of reasons.

First, as a worship leader, I hope that I can be creative enough to come up with my own set lists. I would hope that I can put together my own song ideas and how to pair them with videos and graphics. Even if I don’t have everything I need to make those same graphics, I can save my church $200 and come up with my own stuff. If not, then I’m sure there is someone in the church who can do graphics.

Second, it just seems like these churches that are selling this stuff are being kind of greedy. It’s always the biggest churches that do it. They charge an arm and a leg for everything from set lists to conferences to even the recordings of sermons.

I can promise you right that as long as I’m here, Sojourn will never be that kind of church. Never. We hope God blesses us, and we hope to be a blessing to other churches because of it. We WILL NOT charge anyone to see our set lists. We WILL NOT charge money for you to download our graphics online. We WILL NOT in any way profit from what God has given us.

One church that does an awesome job of this is Lifechurch.tv. They are fantastic. I mean they have everything. You can download graphics, videos, and even sermon notes all for free. You can even subscribe to their podcasts of the recordings of their set lists performed during their weekend services for free. They literally have everything a church can need all for FREE.

That being said, I don’t know when any of the stuff we do will be available, but it will. I will certainly let you know when that happens.

Later peeps.