A couple of weeks ago I thought I'd spend a bit of time refining the electric guitar sounds we use in our worship band. Although I rarely play lead guitar on a Sunday the Line 6 board (POD XT Live) our guitarist use is one that I bought five years back. I'd spent a while setting it up a long time ago, but thought it could use a few tweaks. So anyway, I took it home and rigged it all up when, part way through backing up the tones, it wiped itself! Ahhhh! 5 years of setup GONE! We were 'back to factory settings' (head in hands)!
There was nothing I could do. So, after a had a little sulk, I spent the following four hours meticulously and painstakingly creating a fresh set of 12 patches for us to use that Sunday. What a headache!
Over the following couple of weeks we've never had so many comments complimenting the electric guitar! Seriously, God works all things together for good.
What I would say is that it really pays to spend time honing the sounds that we use during worship and listen carefully to the music that we make. It's a vehicle of a lot of our corporate worship, and a precious thing. Worship isn't just the joyful shout, it's the hours spent getting there. Careful preparation and time spent crafting our music is so important. Four hours perfecting delay settings, tremolos and reverb is worship too. God deserves our best in all things.
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