Cornerstone Vineyard has two Sundays left before it closes its doors. Sundays when I lead worship (which used to be every Sunday) take hours in preparation and delivery. I have often wished that I could devote those hours to outward rather than inward ministry.
But now that I come to the end, it is surprisingly hard to let go. This will be the second time I hang up my guitar. Will I get another crack at it someday? Even if I go out to play open mics and such, going solo is not the same as having a band. And I wouldn’t be playing my favorite David Ruis songs, or get to play the new ones I wanted to try.
I also have a growing repertoire of my own worship songs which are going to gather dust now. Sure, I have other non-church songs which can come out of the closet, but still, if I had thought ahead, I would have had the sound engineers record each live run.
Ah well. Things have to die for new things to be born.
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God’s best to you. My hunch is that the dust will not get too thick on the songs or the guitar.
Jon, I feel for you, man. I’ve been there at the death of a church. And it is not easy to deal with. As you say, it is normal. But that doesn’t make it easy either.
But it’s good that you have a positive outlook from it. God is not going to just let you go stagnant. I’m sure He has even bigger plans for you post Cornerstone.
Rock out in 9 days. I’ll make sure the final Sunday is recorded in full. We’ll go down hard.
We will rock on harder and lounder then ever before!God gave us a gift.We must share the gift with other.
Wow. I can’t believe the church is closing it’s doors. That is difficult.
Come visit us at Valley Christian at 10 AM.
it’s a terrible thing, having your rock fizzle. i’m in training to perhaps “go solo” myself. gulp…
You know Jon, you have a special friend who you will see tonight who has a recording studio in his garage. You also still know the people you play with and possibly even have their telephone numbers. You *could* spend a Sunday making a permenant record of your memories on the peninsula if you asked him…