just to facilitate music. Or to make sure the
band sounds decent or knows what they’re
doing, or to sing on key. We remind them that
they’re at River Valley Church, they’re pastoral
musicians, that’s the phrase that we say quite a
bit. If they’re leading people at their campuses
for twenty minutes, that is their twenty minutes
to shepherd and pastor people. That’s one
of the founding principles that we talk about
a ton. We barely talk about lighting and we
barely talk about video content. We like that
stuff, and we feel like that’s another way to be
creative, but what we fill our hearts with and
what comes out of our mouths a majority of the
time, is a reminder that these songs need to
be God centered, declaring the name of Jesus,
Biblically sound, and again, the authority we
have as pastoral musicians to lead people, that
is most important.
[WM] I like that term, “Pastoral musicians”.
Let’s talk about the subject of “nostalgia”, and
the special feeling associated with it. You and
I both experience this with baseball. I fondly
remember the Detroit
Rocky Calavito, and o
However, nostalgia in
a bad rap. Sometimes
people to not “live in the
past ministry experienc
Scripture that there
for remembrance. T
often built stone mem
commemorate what G
according to at least
faith, increase an atmos
increase confidence in
perspective of nostalg
personally balance reme
looking forward?
[Ryan] In my time
and worship pastor, I’v
amazing and profound
is worship?” And that’s
question. Again, I’ve hea
but my favorite definition
is remembering and a
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