Pilgrim's Ponderings

Six reasons a worship leader could walk away from faith. A prominent worship leader from a leading church recently declared through social media that his faith was on shaky ground. It created a lot of conversational space filled with many opinions and many more questions. There have been some interesting responses from within the Christian community and even from others. As a believer for 24 years, a worship leader for 22 years and a bible teacher for 19 years here are some of my thoughts on this and other trends in church. 1.  The experiential faith factor. The trend in many churches today is to push for this Christian experience. What many might attribute to the more charismatic and Pentecostal stream of faith has now also become a reality in many other evangelical churches as well. I have spoken at a number of different churches and to people from various kinds of theological backgrounds. In all of this I see a trend now where the power of the worship exper...

“They were so small you would not even know they were there. But they were letting air out slowly and consistently.” - Tyre puncture repair man I had a puncture and when we changed the tyre we found that the spare was also flat. I didn’t remember it being flat but there it was as flat as it could possibly be. After doing a lot of running around and getting a mechanic to tag along we finally pulled in to the shop with that spare flat tyre. When he started to work on it to locate the puncture he found THREE of them. But what he said was you would not have noticed them as punctures because they are so small, they only let out air in tiny quantities. He told me that because I had not used the spare for all this time it just lay there in the boot with air slowly escaping until it was totally flat. I was thinking about this thought at night. If it was a big puncture (the ones where a nail gets lodged in and air escapes quite quickly) I would have picked up on it much sooner. Bu...