What Really Matters about Your Music Ministry?

What Really Matters about Your Music Ministry?

1Corinthians 3:5-7, “Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?  I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.  So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.”

            In St. Paul’s first letter the Ephesians, he very plainly speaks to them about what really matters about one’s ministry.  Christian musicians, who travel from church to church giving concerts, seldom get to see the finished fruit of their labors.  I remember so very distinctly the times of discouragement that came when I traveled with the College Choir and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble.  As we would pull out of the church parking lot with that big bus and a van and trailer filled with equipment, sometimes I would wonder if we had actually accomplished much for the advancement of God’s kingdom. 

            It was difficult at times to believe what St. Paul wrote in his first letter to the Corinthian Christians.  The longer I traveled the more I came to realize that sometimes we had come to ‘plant’ and sometimes our purpose was to simply ‘water’ because the local fellowship of believers had already laid an excellent planting of the good seed of the gospel.  Since we were there for only one gospel concert, we were not able to stay and witness God giving the ‘increase’.  So, to those who travel musicing the good news of the gospel I simply remind you that as Paul stated, “Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?’  Traveling musicians do not get discouraged, but rather take courage.  God has promised to give ‘the increase’ and that is what really matters about your musical ministry. 

Thought for the Day

Have you ever thought just how profound Hamlin’s statement is in this song?  “You'll always feel at home wherever you may roam. There is no power can conquer you, While God is on your side. Take Him at his promise, don't run away and hide.”

Song for the Day It is No Secret by Stewart Hamblin