Worship Leaders Community

Last night was an awesome experience. Several worship leaders and their spouses gather together at the home of Jonathan and Angie Stockstill for a meeting that would inspire unity among churches. The meeting started with some food catered by Superior Grill, excellent choice of food, followed shortly by introductions and a brief idea of what each individuals role entailed. I listened to everyones response and was very encouraged to see and hear people's genuine response to the meeting of several different churches. Out of about 15 worship leaders and wives from the Baton Rouge area and beyond, an estimated 20,000 people were represented. Wow! How awesome is that! 

When the introductions were complete, Jonathan and Ty Cook expressed their vision to see each church help their old and newfound friends and vise-versa. In other words, this is the start of God ordained relationship meant to equip and empower the leaders of these churches to be more effective in their roles, to tell your struggles and victories, what works and what doesn't work, bounce around ideas, and gain wisdom. The Bible says "iron sharpens iron" that is what's meant through this meeting. 

We then proceeded to pray for one another, for God to open up opportunities in our communities to do the same with other worship leaders and music directors. After that Jonathan grabs his Acoustic Guitar and leads us into a few songs of worship. Everyone there was prepared to worship God and did just that. We were talking after the evening was over and joked about recording a cd in Jonathan's living room. There was so much talent and anointing on everyone there that it was almost angelic. Literally I stopped singing because I couldn't believe that such a beautiful sound was coming from us. It was genuine and heartfelt sincere worship.

How great is our God? Big enough to bring a group of people with pure motives together to see His kingdom expanded. Not that any single man could get credit but, that through it all the body of Christ would grow in maturity to reach the full potential set before creation. God is doing big things and I'm expecting bigger things to come.