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Worship leaders and teams ought to continually seek sanctification, and our
sin definitely hinders our relationships mentioned above by Lori.  In fact,
ALL of us (not just leadership) are called to be holy, for He is holy.
While all sin is sin, some sins have a greater impact on various
relationships than others.  [If I fib on my tax return, I sin against God,
but my impact on you is minimal; if I have an affair with your wife, the
impact is a bit different!]  I wonder if we sometimes go too far in setting
ourselves up as arbiters of who is acceptable to serve God.  Conversely, we
sometimes go too far in declaring who is anointed and who is not.  There's a
fuzzy line somewhere between discernment and judgement; not only is it
fuzzy, it seems to keep squirming around like a serpent!

There are probably other lessons to be learned, but one of the things that I
think we can learn from Mr. Prosch's situation is that the Spirit blows
where it will, and God's word will not return empty.  To the best of my
knowledge, he was doing what he felt God had called him to do.  And by many
accounts, the Lord was accomplishing His purposes through Mr. Prosch,
despite his sin in a particular area.  A few days ago, the crowd was
shouting "hosannas" to Mr. Prosch, proclaiming him as an anointed messenger
of a new level of worship.  Today, I'll bet there are some who are shouting
"crucify him", at least in their hearts.  (Thankfully, I haven't read
anything like that on this list!)  Were we right, or were we wrong about
him?  Or maybe the point isn't that we're right or wrong, but that we
shouldn't be judging him either way?  To his own Master he stands or falls.

There's a wonderful children's story by Max Lucado, the name of which
escapes me at the moment.  It might be "You Are Special", or something to
that effect, and it's published in at least two contexts.  Anyway, it's
about a bunch of wooden creatures called  Wemmicks who go around putting
stars on Wemmicks they value, and gray dots on Wemmicks they don't.  Sing
well? You get a star.  Shy?  You get a dot.  You even get a star for having
lots of stars, since obviously everybody else thinks you're special, so you
MUST be!  Got a lot of dots?  You must deserve even more, then!  But there's
this one Wemmick to whom neither the stars nor the dots seem to stick -
because she only cares about what the Woodworker thinks ofher.  Good story.
Get it and read it to the adults in your church!

Grace & Peace...

Paul LePine
Christ Church
Watertown, CT
mailto:plepine@snet.net

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