.down. at His feet.

back to good ol' black.

.about

he answers to ben, neb and oei.

he knows what God has called him to do - whether he thinks it's crazy is another story.

he loves music and attempts to create it when the mood strikes.

he just got too lazy to complete this paragraph.

.past



.credits

Design based on Serene Ng’s Orient
Picture: DeviantArt

Saturday, May 20, 2006

So I've been given a day off as compensation for all the trouble I had to go through last night. The lieutenant felt really bad about the whole thing and even bought us drinks. I've been wanting to milk the guilt for all it's worth and get more than a day off and a drink, but I keep getting reminded that forgiveness doesn't involve constantly reminding the joker about his foul up. Bah.

On a related note, Mindef at 1am can be pretty spooky. The long, dark corridors and quiet empty carparks are pretty much receipes for a horror movie or a slasher flick. Just add some sudden, loud music, a mysterious girl in red with no face and a few no name actors to suffer gruesome ends and you're done. Oh and chainsaws. It's not a slasher flick without chainsaws.

Audition interviews tommorrow. Amazingly I'm not worried about whether I pass or fail the auditions. I mean if I pass then the ministry gets a new bassist. If I fail, then we'll have proven that we won't hesitate to fail even a ministry leader if he/she doesn't meet the standards of the auditions. Seriously it's a win-win situation for us.

What I'm apprehensive about actually is interviewing those who couldn't meet our requirements for the auditions. It's one of the hardest things about being a leader in a creative arts ministry. How do you tell somebody that they can't sing or play? I honestly can't think of a nice, diplomatic way of bringing it across without causing the poor fellow undue trauma.

It's quite sad to have to turn people away, especially when you see the interest or passion for the ministry in them. I personally value passion more than technical ability, but I can't compromise the ministry by letting in people who can't sing or play. Our basic ground rule has been the same for the past 2 years: If we're comfortable with putting somebody up onstage, we'll pass him/her. Pretty lenient if you ask me, compared to the worship ministries in other churches, but we're trying to strike a balance here and not turn the ministry into some elitist caste of Christians.

posted by NEB at 12:27 AM