Reflection Paper

Part One: The Leader

The Important Things When I graduate Liberty, I am going to be some excited to lead worship for a living. Ever since the 6th grade, I knew that God was calling me into ministry, especially the worship ministry. When I started to lead worship for my youth ministry and my school I felt always satisfied leading worship. While I was leading worship I knew that this is what God called me to and whenever I was given the opportunity lead I always took it, because I always loved to lead people into worship. Once I get a job as a worship pastor I know there will be some things that I never expected and struggles that come my way. One of the struggles that I think I’m going to face is doubting if I will ever be good enough.

It is not my right to go on stage and lead people into a time of worship with God if my heart is not in the right place. If your heart is not in the right place with God, it would be better to stay off stage and not even sing or do music. I need to make it my goal to build a better relationship with Christ. I truly believe that if my walk with Christ is not getting stronger each and every day then surely my walk with Christ is getting weaker. There is no middle ground either it’s getting better or worse. Therefore I am striving to spend time in God’s word and in prayer every day so that my walk with Christ is getting better and better. My relationship with Christ is the most important thing and I never want to think that my relationship is getting

Having an idol will be a hindrance with my relationship with Christ. An idol is something that I put above God. Having the right heart, I need to make sure nothing becomes before God, because if it does I have an idol in my life that I need to get rid of. As a kid, my idol was video games. I would play them constantly and I let my grades slip and my walk with Christ slip. Once I figured out what was happening I knew what I needed to do. I need to spend more time with Christ and less time on games. At first, it was hard to stop playing for a while but then it continually got easier. Then I noticed my grades were getting better and also my walk with the Lord was getting better. I like what Kauflin said, “What we love most will determine what we genuinely worship.” In my walk with Christ, I desire to love Him above all things because I want to genuinely worship Him. I do not want to have a fake relationship with Christ, but one where my heart is in the right place so that I can show others the love of