They have to have room to take some risk , and to fail a little bit . Another way is something I like to call , “ Calling out the gold in someone .” When another person is being less than their best , it ’ s really easy to highlight that . What ’ s difficult is finding the gold that ’ s underneath that . Especially when we ’ re looking at someone prophetically , it can be easy to pick out all of the issues that someone has and what is going wrong in their life . But the culture that we ’ ve developed in this house is to not just look at the negative and at what is wrong . Look one step further to see what it is that God has placed in that person that just isn ’ t coming out yet . We relate it to mining for gold . When you mine for gold , you have to dig through mud , rocks , and dirt , but the miner knows there ’ s gold under there . There is something beautiful and valuable that God has placed there under the soil . That ’ s what we ’ re trying to do with people . There may be a lot of mud , gunk , and mess in their life , but we ’ re not going to see only that . We ’ re going to look at you with eyes to see where the gold is within you and bring that out . The more that we can bring the gold to the surface and affirm it by telling them , “ This is what I see on your life , your identity , and what you carry ,” the more it gives people permission to step into that . Instead of just condemning the wrong , we try to highlight what ’ s right .
It ’ s like what Paul said about dwelling on what is pure , righteous , and holy . We try to dwell on those things with people too , in relationship . The hope is that by calling those things to the surface and affirming them , we will actually see it play out in the way that they live their lives .
[ WM ] The Bethel Music team uses the Nashville Numbers System . How do you train people who are not necessarily familiar with diatonic theory to understand Nashville Numbers and , in turn , bring them back to use with their home team ?
[ Joshua ] I actually teach a whole course through Worship U online that eventually gets to the Nashville Numbers system . The way we approach it is to start with the very basics . Things like what a note is , and what pitch is , and then building from there . How do these intervals interact with one another ? How do these intervals create a major scale ? Once you build a major scale , then you can notice a pattern that happens across every major scale . That same pattern is found within the chords of the major scale , and once you understand the chordal scale , it ’ s easily translatable into a number system because it ’ s the same pattern , no matter what key you ’ re in . Realistically , it
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