The final cut on the E.P. I Will Sing available now at GaryTrobee.com
A little longer video. An amazing moment happened in the studio at the end of this song which I added to the end of the video. Hope it blesses you.
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Waited, I Will Sing, Faithful One, Run To You, You Pursue Me, My Jesus I Love Thee
Here is cut number 5 on the E.P. I Will Sing, available now at GaryTrobee.com
Hope you’ll check it out.
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Waited, I Will Sing, Faithful One, Run To You, You Pursue Me, My Jesus I Love Thee
You don’t have to look far to see how the church is losing its respect and priority in people’s lives. Just this morning two articles came into my news aggregator.
“19 Numbers Which Prove That America is Turning Away From Christianity”
“The Inevitable Collapse of Organized Religion in America”
I see articles like this every day. A couple of weeks ago I asked the question
“What Happened?”
There is no silver bullet but I would like to begin answering that question today from my perspective.
The church is dead, dying, and irrelevant partly because we have promoted high capacity doers over equippers.
Let me explain by using a football analogy.
We’ll use football, mostly because I love it, but also because stats are easy to get and evaluate.
After a very quick Google search I found:
There are just over 1 million high school football players in America.
About 67,000 of them go on to play in college.
There are currently 1,696 players in the NFL.
.166% of high school players will go on to play in the NFL.
.003% of high school players will go on to be head coaches in the NFL.
These 32 coaches must be pretty talented football players right? Let’s take a look.
Of the 32 coaches only 9 played in the NFL. The top 15 have a winning percentage over .500 and only 3 of them played a single snap in the NFL and only 5 played at a division one level. The old adage “if you can’t play coach” is true but for different reasons than we thought.
Leading/equipping and doing are different skillsets. There are a very few who can do both. Art Shell and Mike Ditka are among the 100 greatest football players of all time and were also pretty good coaches but they are the only two in the top 100.
When you’re looking for leaders do you go looking for the best “doers” or the best “equippers”? Do you look for Tom Brady or Bill Belichick? We definitely want Tom Brady on our staff but we want Bill Belichick to lead the team.
More on this later but today I leave you with this.
If we want the church to become vibrant again there are many things we need to focus on however; from a leadership perspective a top priority must be to put equippers in places of leadership.
Your thoughts?
I hope your enjoying these song stories. I’m getting better at video editing but still a long way to go. It’s been a great process for me to be able to remind myself of where these songs came from and God’s faithfulness and goodness over the last several years.
Here is the song story of “Run To You”, track number 4 on the E.P. I Will Sing, available now at GaryTrobee.com
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Other Song Stories:
Waited, I Will Sing, Faithful One, Run To You, You Pursue Me, My Jesus I Love Thee
I look forward to hearing your comments.
Here is the backstory to Faithful One, Track number 3 of the E.P. Faithful on available now at GaryTrobee.com
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Waited, I Will Sing, Faithful One, Run To You, You Pursue Me, My Jesus I Love Thee
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I understand in some instances it works; however it shouldn’t be the norm.
The closest thing to a search committee I see in the New Testament is Acts 6:3 where it says;
“Seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom”.
We pour over resumes’ until we find the qualifications we’re looking for and hope the person we choose is of good character and will catch our heart, vision, and culture once they arrive.
What would our church’s look like if we were to create an environment where we prayerfully evaluate those who’ve been entrusted to us, recognize their gifting, call out those gifts, encourage them, equip them, and release them? Giving them permission to operate in their gift?
We are called to be world changers. Our leaders must be equippers not just the best doers. (more on this next time)
Leaders must equip. We are given a ministry for the purpose of stewardship until we pass it on to the one we have raised up. We need to build leaders who go to their leaders and say “ I’ve worked myself out of a job. What else do you have for me?”
Is your organization a safe place for leaders to tell you they’ve worked themselves out of a job? Are you prayerfully recognizing, calling out, equipping, and releasing the gifting entrusted to you? It’s a slower process but grows deep roots.
As always would love to hear your thoughts.
Here is episode 2 of the I Will Sing song stories. This one the title cut from the E.P. Available now at GaryTrobee.com
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Waited, I Will Sing, Faithful One, Run To You, You Pursue Me, My Jesus I Love Thee
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The sheep are getting a bad rap. Articles and conversations everywhere talk about a lack of commitment from church people.
Recently a friend called and said “I’ve been asked to sign a contract to be on the worship team”. A conversation on a social networking site was titled “How do I get commitment from my worship team?” One solution was to “fire” them and make them re-audition every year.
The sheep are accused of not having the proper priorities or they don’t have a heart for the lost or they’re too materialistic or have a consumer mentality. Though these things may be true on some level please consider this:
We have the church we’ve planted.
I believe every problem on earth is a leadership problem. I don’t believe it’s a heart issue for most pastors and leaders. I’m confident of your desire to see the saints equipped and the world changed. What I’m suggesting is a re-evaluation of the process we have embraced as a church to get there.
People will prepare themselves to the level of their perceived opportunity.
I’ll never forget the first time I came early to a men’s meeting in Bible College. When I arrived the Men’s pastor met me at the door and asked if I would give a quick encouraging word to the leaders. I immediately began to scramble for something relevant and encouraging to share. I promise you I never came unprepared again. Knowing I had an opportunity to bless and encourage those leaders caused me to always come prepared to share.
We must create a culture of opportunity for people to serve and flourish in their gifts. We must be actively looking for the gifting in those entrusted to us and give them opportunities to step out in a safe place where they have the freedom to fail. It’s critical then to let them know how they did and how to improve. Encouragement goes a long way.
The quickest way to get people planted is to get them serving in their gifting. Not using people to meet needs and serve events but allowing them to operate in their gifting.
I have much more to say on this. That’s enough for today. What are your thoughts?
Here is the story behind the first track on the E.P. I Will Sing, available now at GaryTrobee.com
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Waited, I Will Sing, Faithful One, Run To You, You Pursue Me, My Jesus I Love Thee
After it was clear we were going to stop having kids with two boys I used to lament from time to time that I didn’t have a daughter. Well that changed last night.
My oldest reserved Jives coffee house and told his soon to be fiance he was playing an acoustic set as a fundraiser. After she arrived he played “I Want to Know Your Plans” by Say Anything. We had rehearsed earlier to sing the La, La’s at the appropriate time.
Here is the proposal.
And here are the lyrics to the song:
“I Want To Know Your Plans”
I want to know your plans, and how involved in them I am.
When you leave for good this fall, will I be forgiven?
And If you want roses, I’ll buy a bouquet.
If that just won’t cut it, what can I say?
You’re what keeps me believing this world’s not long dead.
Strength in my bones and the words in my head.
They pour out to paper, it’s all for you
‘Cause that’s what you do. That’s what you do.
I want to know your fears, and if you’ll forget me next year
And when the jets go up and out, will our hearts stay here?
If you could forgive me (forgive me) for being so brash.
You could hit me or whip me, I’d savor each lash.
You’re what keeps me believing this world’s not long dead.
Strength in my bones and the words in my head.
They pour out to paper, it’s all for you
Cause that’s what you do
No more fighting.
It is only a waste of our time.
‘Cause soon we’ll be leaving,
will this strength still be mine?
I’ll look out for you till I die
Till I’m gone… yeah
I’ll remember you till I die (till I die)
Till I’m gone.
You’re what keeps me believing this world’s not long dead.
Strength in my bones and the words in my head.
They pour out to paper, it’s all for you
You’re what keeps me believing this world’s not long dead.
Strength in my bones and the words in my head.
They pour out to paper, it’s all for you
‘Cause that’s what you do. That’s what you do.
Amazing night, Thanks Jives.
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