Music
Ministers that Minister in Love
1Corinthians 13:4, “Charity suffereth long, and is kind;
charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
The Revised
Standard Version translates1Corinthians 13:4, “Love is patient and kind; love is
not jealous or boastful” Love in action is patient even if the Christian has to
suffer for a long time. Some unfortunate situations do not go away quickly. If a
music minister has the heart of a pastor he or she will have to endure some things
(and some people) that are hard to endure.
If all
that a minister of music had put up with was a soprano who sings under pitch he
or she would live a charmed life. I
remember one afternoon when one of my fine technical assistants was working in
the auditorium at the top of a sixteen foot step ladder when a most annoying young
man came and stood at the base of the ladder spouting off acrid comments to the
technician. I will never forget what the
no nonsense technician calmly said to the student at the base of the ladder—“Go
away”.
I did
not chuckle but I thought to myself that at that moment that although I had
remained silent, on the inside I was not inwardly patient or kind. As I look back on that short event many times
I have realized that what I lacked at that particular time was the agape love spoken of by the Corinthian
writer.
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