{"id":2894,"date":"2013-12-09T14:25:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2013-12-12T01:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T06:28:22","slug":"hope-for-weary-worship-pastors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2013\/12\/hope-for-weary-worship-pastors\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for Weary Worship Pastors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2013\/12\/Matthew-11.28-weary.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[2894]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2895\" alt=\"Matthew 11.28 - weary\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2013\/12\/Matthew-11.28-weary.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2013\/12\/Matthew-11.28-weary.jpg 670w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2013\/12\/Matthew-11.28-weary-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><em>by Matt Nightingale<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of year. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/eccworship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Better Together<\/a> forum, it&#8217;s not uncommon to read posts and comments that sound something like these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 19px\">&#8220;I am overwhelmed.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 19px\">&#8220;Our choir is really struggling and our concert is this Sunday!&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 19px\">&#8220;There is so much pressure to make the church look awesome this time of year.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I picked a really tough song, and I&#8217;m afraid the band is not gonna nail it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and this, rather poignant, one from this last weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">&#8220;I am so tired. Your prayers appreciated&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m aware that, for many of us, this is our job. And just like tax accountants struggle through the month of April, busy Christmases and Easters are simply an occupational hazard for worship pastors. My prayer is that\u00a0<em>despite the crazy schedule and high expectations,\u00a0<\/em>that we would find the compelling and hopeful message of Advent applies to us as well as to the members of our congregations.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel, God-With-Us, is here. And he invites us to find our hope and our rest in Him. Take heart, colleagues, Christmas is coming. Jesus is coming. And we\u00a0<em>will<\/em> find rest for our souls.<\/p>\n<p><em>Matt Nightingale is Pastor of Worship at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redwoodcovenant.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Redwood Covenant Church<\/a>\u00a0in Santa Rosa, CA, and a member of the ECC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/who-we-are\/structure\/commissions\/worship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commission on Worship<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=2894&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Matt Nightingale It&#8217;s that time of year. In the Better Together forum, it&#8217;s not uncommon to read posts and comments that sound something like these: &#8220;I am overwhelmed.&#8221; &#8220;Our choir is really struggling and our concert is this Sunday!&#8221; &#8220;There is so much pressure to make the church look awesome this time of year.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,14503,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","category-better-together","category-church-year"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hope for Weary Worship Pastors - Worship Connect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2013\/12\/hope-for-weary-worship-pastors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hope for Weary Worship Pastors - Worship Connect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Matt Nightingale It&#8217;s that time of year. 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