Beyond Sunday Morning
I recently watched an excellent episode titled "Beyond Sunday Morning" By Dan McCollam which I thought you would find really interesting.
Dan tells a story about a man who leads worship at his particular church who would start every set with a prophetic song. Dan took him aside and suggested that he meet the congregation where they were at so that he could actually lead them somewhere together. The man leads worship next time and does the same thing he’s always done so Dan pulls him aside again. As the man leads worship and did the same thing a third time. He didn’t have the grace on his life for Sunday morning. Put that worship leader in a prayer meeting then that prophetic grace is perfect for that moment.
The place someone serves should match the grace on their life. We don’t all fit into the fivefold ministry.
To lead on a Sunday morning you need a pastoral grace to gather people and lead them.
You cannot conform everyone to work in a Sunday morning setting.
There are different graces for different places.
In a worship community, you can create places for all the different kinds of people who have the heart to worship.
The purpose of the fivefold gifts is that we would have unity. That we would receive wholeness.
Fivefold graces in worship look like this.
Teacher grace - There is an emphasis on:
The message, the content, all the songs will be on the same theme.
In songwriting, they are the ones that can write verses with ease.
Often there is a learning agenda with the songs they choose and write.
Pastoral grace - Has an emphasis on:
Inclusion.
Pastors are shepherds. They are gatherers
Seeks to appeal to the larger audience.
They choose songs that engage people every time.
The message, music and art are often secondary to the agenda of its effectiveness.
Writing songs that are easy to sing and remember isn’t an artistic copout. It’s actually a grace from the Holy Spirit to draw large amounts of people together.
Evangelistic grace - Has an emphasis on:
The call or testimony
They will be drawn to the greatest need in the room
A call to enlist for a cause or a purpose.
It’s an art and music that expresses a tendency to be 1 dimensional because it has a narrow focus on the individual.
A lot of salvation, and testimony songs.
Prophetic grace - has an emphasis on:
Creating atmosphere
The art and music can be mystical, and spiritual
This artist or musician will have more a sub-culture following than mainstream.
For instance, The Grateful Dead. They play their music differently every time. They have a prophetic anointing that has never been redeemed.
Their music can be very experience-oriented. It’s all about having an encounter.
Apostolic grace - (the word apostle means sent ones, with authority and power.) emphasis on:
Mission.
The subject of art or music could be political, a mindset and transformation
Pioneering
They capture the sound and cry of a generation.
How do you find your primary grace? What does your heartbeat with?
The grace is the lens for your leadership.
What are you most drawn to? This doesn’t mean that if you are prophetic, you can’t lead on Sunday morning. You just may have to put your prophetic gifting under subjection and go to where the people are and bring them into that prophetic place with you.
But that the whole community would come together. You have to celebrate where worship is happening in other places than Sunday morning. There is something beyond Sunday mornings. We will never transform the world by just reaching the church.
There are 7 mountains of society.
Family
Education
Media
Business
Government
Arts and entertainment
Religion
I believe that there is a place for worship in each one of these areas. Maybe not the worship we do on Sunday mornings....
Start to dream what your fivefold grace could look like in the area of society that you also have grace for.
To watch this teaching in full -https://app.worshipu.com/library/beyond-sunday-morning