I’ve gone to an audition before, but as a supporter. Having gone through it today, even though it was a Christian one, it just didn’t feel good.

I guess the “business” of it all gets to me. Having to be “groomed” and tailored so that you have “marketability” just makes things so unrealistic to me.

So when is this about the music again? I know we have become a society where image is everything but I’m not so sure I really care anymore about being the “it factor”. That’s right, I said it. I don’t care anymore. If being an artist makes you have this warped sense of being, then I’m out.

I love music and I have a passion for it. I just don’t need it to be EVERYTHING that I am. Because truthfully, there is more to me than that.

“Stop the World” by Matthew West.

This song really reminds me of how much I let the world distract me and how I need to have time with Him. What a great song!

I believe these two things go hand in hand. If a person has a lot of talent, but isn’t motivated or excited, then no one would really enjoy what that person is doing. Same thing if you have a lot of passion but no talent, the outcome isn’t a very pleasant performance.

Let’s take Ke$ha for example. (she needs a dollar sign to distinguish that she is different from the other Keshas of the world…hehe jk) I mean, her music is catchy and all but why does she have to show that she has passion by acting like a ditz? This is an example where her talent is thrown out the window.

Lesson of the day kids: You need to have both aspects of passion and talent because there is so much bad noise out there that we call music.

Music deserves a better definition.

Recently I had a conversation with a pastor and told him that I was thinking about becoming a Worship Pastor. He replied “but you have to be very good at guitar…”

I said, “What about Darlene Zschech from Hillsong?”

“Oh, she has a very good voice.”

It makes me think about how much even worship has changed within the last decade. Have we become all about “the performance”??

It’s sad to say but I think the answer is leaning towards yes. I for one am always trying to improve on my skills but I think there’s a point when we start worrying about guitar solos vs the real reason about why we’re there in the first place.

Time for a QC. (Quality Check) Are we truly leading people into worship or are we all about “showing off our right to be on stage”?