fathers, people to help us grow, to remind mad. And usually I had to go away and digest it us who we are when we are not behaving as a little bit, and that’s okay, change is not always such. People who encourage us when we get sudden, change is sometimes very gradual and If you want to be a great worship leader, if you
discouraged, people who say, “Hey, that is a slow and takes time. want to be a great leader, a mother or father,
really bad attitude.” You know, Banning (Jesus
just not how it works (laughs).
a mentor, you start with your own growth. You
Culture’s founding pastor) has been a father What makes a person change and head in the start with your own pursuit of healthiness, and
in my life, and I can’t tell you how many times right direction and become the best version of this is across the board. This is not just learning
I’ve sat in his office and he would be saying to them is someone who has their heart yielded tools of how to lead a worship set well, this
me, “Kim you don’t get to behave like that.” to that change, who says, “Yes, I want to is pursuing the dark places in our hearts, the
Or, “You don’t get to respond like that, react grow, and I understand that growth is painful. unhealthy places in our hearts, the things that
like that.” And I would get so mad at him and I understand that growth is challenging. I hold us back from being better people and
say, “You require more from me than you do my understand that to be the best version of myself better leaders. The things we try to hide and
brothers” and he would say, “Yes, because you is going to require and cost something of me.” forget about, or the habits that need to be
are called to more. You are called to a level of It means that you don’t stay in the same place, broken because they are not healthy. When I
leadership that they’re not called to. Not that but that is what we want. The difference, the say, “pursuing the best version of ourselves” it’s
they are not meant to be leaders, but you are reason why only a small percentage will actually not just pursuing knowledge and education and
called to something different and your called to arrive there, is because there are others who tools to be good at a worship set, it is the full
a higher level of leadership, so I am holding you want the prize without being willing to give what package. It is the character, the integrity, and
at a higher accountability. And the way that you it costs or takes to get to that prize. “I want the inner healing and healthiness of our hearts
are behaving is just not okay for what you are to win the trophy for climbing the mountain the and our insides. This is something that requires
called to.” It was convicting, I knew he was right fastest, but I don’t want to actually climb the work, and usually requires the help of mothers
even though it irritated me and made me really mountain, because that is difficult.” And that is and fathers and other people in our lives.
February 2019
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