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FORGET ABOUT PURCHASING
AN EFFECT TODAY AND PERFORMING IT TOMORROW |
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You have been playing a trumpet for years, played in the school marching band in grade school, junior high and high school. You even were part of a jazz combo for a while. So you are asked to lead worship at your church. Would you run to a music store and pick up a guitar for the first time and think you could play it the next day? Of course you wouldn’t do that. Even though you have experience, you would appear a fool trying something new so soon. It takes time to learn to play a musical instrument and this is understood. Why is it then that some people purchase an illusion one day and then think they can perform it the same day or the next day? Learning to do an effect takes time. The presentation of it requires necessary practice. Your experience and the difficulty of the effect will play into the “time before performing” equation. Take the time required to do it right. On this subject, a friend and fellow performer Duane Laflin points to II Samuel 24:24 where it is recorded that King David says, “I will not offer to the Lord that which hath cost me nothing.” And we need to remember what we are doing is for the Lord. Never forget the counsel in Ecclesiastes 9:10, “Whatever your hands find to do, do with ALL your might!” |
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