Showing posts with label Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Church. Show all posts

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Worship Between Different Churches II

I also believe that the church must lose its effectiveness in the world if the church or people of the church have no unity, because it will cause a gap that will separate the people inside the church. In fact, the article also says, the real war is with the enemy who would do us in by dividing us and rendering us ineffective by our bickering and fighting; so the source of war comes from the separation of people in church because of misunderstanding about the different type of worship which are those who want traditional worship and those who want contemporary worship. This is the reason why the other churches debate to different churches and then the people who do not know Jesus Christ as their personal “Savior” sees the two different churches debating- they will having a negative thinking about Christianity or the Christian life put inside their minds. That’s very sad right? We are all do believe that God sees our heart and no one can judge of worship lifestyle cause God is the only one who can see inside our heart. I’m not saying this because I’m in the contemporary church what I mean is whatever you do, do it for the glory of our God.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Playing Drum To God

To be honest, there are times I always having a hard time playing the drums in our church, some times I got nervous and because of that, my tendency is to play drums out of timing. Bad is in it? But the good thing is I have a very patient worship leader no other than kuya Ted Amper. Why? He’s a very good man and he helped me so much in order that I could be a good drummer someday, he even molds my character looking back the way I used to be. Maybe he doesn’t know that, but he’s been a big impact to my life. The reason why I could play drums even though I’m not that good enough to play drums is because; I was put to mind that this is all for God and not for men. And I know that I gave it to God all my best and I don’t care what they say if I had mistaken the bit or the timing. Here’s the secret, if you are a drummer in your church and some how you’re just a beginner the same as me before, what you have to do when you got nervous is just pray to God and ask Him that He will give you strength. And if you know something you are not yet surrender to Him either sin or something my advice is, you have to surrender that first before God so that He will make you a clean vessel.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The Time How Do I Become A Drummer

Now you know how I become drummer right? Of course not, since I already knew how to play Guitar, Bass Guitar, Piano, joined a particular ministry inside our church which was the music ministry and my knowledge about music continue to grow as well as skills and then I begin to appreciate the sound of our church’s drums. I remember when Pastor Jeff Aspacio our youth director before and drummer of our church while his playing the drum, I always used to looked at him and try to find out how do he play drums with a very nice groove and fill ins. By the way Pastor Jeff is one of the reason why I become a drummer because he taught me a lot of thing about drums including exercises, rudiments, analyzing the sound of the drums when I’m listening a particular song. When Pastor Jeff sent by our church to have another church in Makati City, our main church has no drummer anymore that’s why Kuya Ted Amper our worship leader and music director asked me to choose which instrument do I really like to play when serving the Lord every Sunday, and said to my self since there is no drummer yet, I will play drums for the Lord even though I am not good enough. This is how I become drummer.

My Next Encounter With The Musical Instruments


The second instrument I learned was looks like a guitar but it’s not called guitar itself, it was a Bass Guitar. The reason why learned that because I want to enhance my skill on playing a guitar but some how I observed that what I playing on a guitar is sounds like a bass, well that’s my starting point to became curious about playing bass guitar. Few months later I become very interested on how to become a good musician, to tell what I am a Christian and I've been a member of our church “Sumulong Baptist Church” for almost 10years and the song that was the first song I played was a Christian song. We used to sing that in our church and I really love that song, the title of that song was "Lord, I Lift Your Name On High." That time I want to praise God because He saves my life, He took all my sin. Till now I love to praise His name. Believe me or not just a month ago I learned how to play piano but I’m not that good as guitar player because it’s just chords and very basic until now what I know in playing piano is chords alone. When I knew how to play piano I felt that I’m so very happy that God gave me a talent and what said to my self was I want to be used by God in the area of music. Then I joined the music ministry in our church and become very active.