Thursday, February 28, 2008
What Playing For CellGroup Is About.

Hey Guys
Today i'm about what playing guitar for cellgroup is about. To me, i think playing music for cg is about building the atmosphere for the people. My guitar teacher use to tell me, we're like the spiritual architect, we form the shape and volume of
God's presence.

Whenever i play in cellgroup, i do my best to play with my feelings a hundred percent in the song. I do still find difficulty in playing with feel and taking commands at the same time though. I think that it's not something one can learn or memorize. So when my friends ask me to them the way to play PnW (Praise and Worship), I would just teach them how to play a guitar normally or just teach one or two songs.

Rule #1 in playing PnW, is that you can only master the playing styles on your own. No one can coach you to play PnW. If they did they would just be teaching you how to play it. You'd just be playing musical notes and not the spirit.

I learned that the times when i can play really well is when i'm doing my quiet time (Provided i have practiced to play the song before hand). I then take what i encounter during my quiet time and bring it into the cg setting at the same making sure it tallies with my leader's commands.

It's never easy playing in a cellgroup, no matter how long you've been doing it. I think it speaks for a lot of the guitarists here.

So the only way to improve is to make sure you know how to play that song, when you able to play it worship God with it. Put emotion while playing the number during cellgroup. When you feel that you need a little breakthrough when you're playing, fix you eyes on God and sing along with the song treat it like your quiet time except you have 20 other people singing along with you.

I hope whoever reads this can be of help especially if you're a guitarist, Or if you're a cellgroup leader and you think what i'm saying might not sound that dumb, recommend it to your guitarist=).

CHEERS!
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