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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