Post by melllvin on Jan 16, 2008 20:07:08 GMT 8
i just read from another forum and thought it would be an interseting read for us as well, its about this worship leader/ composer guy called Brian Doerksen.
Q.You have 25 albums to your credit as a worship leader or producer, and thousands sing your songs every week. So why do so few people know your name?
Brian Doerksen: When I first felt called to do this over twenty years ago, I wanted to perform music on big stages. But God quickly called me to be all about worship, which is really "Notice God, don't notice me." I feel incredibly comfortable in my own way trying to live out the whole John the Baptist thing ("He must become greater, I must become less") especially when I look at what it means to be a worship leader—an artist who creates a "window" for people to look through and see someone greater.
Q.That explains why you'd rather lead at your local church than getting your name out there or going on a high-profile tour.
Doerksen: It is connected. To me, if I'm going to write worship music, inspiring others and putting songs in the mouths of the local church, if I'm not anchored in the local church and finding my primary identity there, it's going to feel false.
I hear people say, "My goal is to write a song that the whole world will sing." I kinda look at them sideways and ask, "Why don't you try and write a song you want to sing in your prayers to God? Or a song that your local church wants to sing, where you're serving, where you're known and loved." Let God worry about the rest of the world.
Q.Your songs are sung all over the world. Does that have the potential of making you lose that focus and feeding your ego?
Doerksen: Absolutely. I'm a human being with the same struggles towards selfishness and the desire to be noticed. But at the very heart of worship you have to lay that down and say, "God, I want you to be the one who's noticed." That's why when you're in the local church, when you're grounded with your wife, kids, and such, you're not special for the music you make, but because of who you are and for the things that are away from the stage.
If you are intersted in reading the entire article please go to: www.briandoerksen.com/resources/worship_insights.html
As musicians or worship leaders up on the stage, it is so very easy for one to take His glory and the centre stage...... it's a conscious effort in guarding one's heart so that HE may INCREASE and we DECREASE.
Q.You have 25 albums to your credit as a worship leader or producer, and thousands sing your songs every week. So why do so few people know your name?
Brian Doerksen: When I first felt called to do this over twenty years ago, I wanted to perform music on big stages. But God quickly called me to be all about worship, which is really "Notice God, don't notice me." I feel incredibly comfortable in my own way trying to live out the whole John the Baptist thing ("He must become greater, I must become less") especially when I look at what it means to be a worship leader—an artist who creates a "window" for people to look through and see someone greater.
Q.That explains why you'd rather lead at your local church than getting your name out there or going on a high-profile tour.
Doerksen: It is connected. To me, if I'm going to write worship music, inspiring others and putting songs in the mouths of the local church, if I'm not anchored in the local church and finding my primary identity there, it's going to feel false.
I hear people say, "My goal is to write a song that the whole world will sing." I kinda look at them sideways and ask, "Why don't you try and write a song you want to sing in your prayers to God? Or a song that your local church wants to sing, where you're serving, where you're known and loved." Let God worry about the rest of the world.
Q.Your songs are sung all over the world. Does that have the potential of making you lose that focus and feeding your ego?
Doerksen: Absolutely. I'm a human being with the same struggles towards selfishness and the desire to be noticed. But at the very heart of worship you have to lay that down and say, "God, I want you to be the one who's noticed." That's why when you're in the local church, when you're grounded with your wife, kids, and such, you're not special for the music you make, but because of who you are and for the things that are away from the stage.
If you are intersted in reading the entire article please go to: www.briandoerksen.com/resources/worship_insights.html
As musicians or worship leaders up on the stage, it is so very easy for one to take His glory and the centre stage...... it's a conscious effort in guarding one's heart so that HE may INCREASE and we DECREASE.