Trying something new

I enjoy learning new things - which is just as well, considering the number of new things that I've had to learn in the last week. Yesterday's church service was pre-recorded on Friday by a handful of individuals who had never done this sort of thing before. If you wanted to be picky there were a whole load of things that we could have done better, but to be honest, no one was being picky. 

One of the interesting things is that each of those who took part felt a certain 'cringe factor' watching themselves - but everyone else found the recording such a blessing. I wonder what kind of response we would have had - if we'd asked those who were involved, 'we're thinking of doing a pre-recorded church service and we'd love you to be a part of it - what do you think?'

Whenever we feel God asking us to do something different or new most of us can usually come up with a host of reasons as to why that's not a good idea, and a whole list of names of people who could do it better. And to be honest quite a few of those people probably could do it 'better'. But that's not the point. If God is asking us to do it then he will enable it to be a blessing to others.

Over these next few weeks, many of us are going to have to learn things that we imagined we couldn't do. Some of us are going to be asked to do things that are out of our comfort zones. We may make some mistakes. There may be others who could do it better. But if God is asking us to do it - then he will make it a blessing to others.

(And if you've been blessed by something that someone has done - have you encouraged them by letting them know?)