Saturday Morning Excellence

I’m at the church early this morning to help run a workshop that we’re putting on for vocalists who are part of our Sunday morning and senior high worship teams. I love doing stuff like this and really appreciate that people who serve here understand that dedication to their craft is important.

I remember hearing once that excellence isn’t always about quality – sometimes that freaks us out because we think if we can be the best then it’s not worth doing at all. Instead we should think of excellence as constant improvement in all areas. I like that. Excellence is development. If we are continuing to grow in the quality of our presentation, in the level of our skills and abilities, in our understanding of what it means to worship God then we are pursuing excellence.

Even take a look at the word – excellence. Excel-lence. ‘The state of excelling.’ It’s not about superiority, it’s about excelling.

So this morning we’ll be spending time talking about singing and warming up and body language and monitor mixes and all that good stuff but really we’re talking about excellence.