Unmet Expectations Part 2

When you walk into the main auditorium of a church, what do you expect to see? Lights, sound, and video? Well, what you don't see is that same room at 6:00 in the morning.

When we walk into the theater that we meet in, it is completely empty. There is nothing in that room except seats. So everything that you see when you come to our service at Sojourn is set up that morning. Everything from the sound, lights, stage, video, everything. It may not look like a lot to you, but it sure does to me!

One of the hardest things to deal with when you bring in all of your own equipment and set it all up in just a couple of hours if getting it all to work properly. And that is the first expectation I have when I walk into our theater on Sunday.

I expect all of the equipment to work right.

I really do. And you'd think that after working in the audio/visual department of a church for years, I would expect things to mess up rather than work. But alas, here I am wanting things to do what they should. I just think that if we set it up the same way we did last week, then everything should work the same. Only that never happens. there's always a new buzz in the speakers. There's always another cable that goes out. There's always another wire that's missing. It never fails. And I know this doesn't only happen in church plants. I've been on staff at 2 other churches before, both of which had their own buildings, and the same stuff happened then.

I think a big part of it for me is that I just don't want to have to worry about that kind of stuff on Sunday. I guess I've been spoiled at the last 2 churches I've worked at. At both of them, I was the guy who dealt with all of the audio/visual mishaps. All the while the worship leader had no idea that any of it was happening. He didn't even get there till about 2 hours after I did. So maybe I expected the same thing to happen for me once I became a worship leader. Well, I don't really think so.

Either way, the first expectation that I have going into a Sunday is that everything will work right. So far, I haven't had that expectation met a single time!