Watermark Music

SURPRISE 👀🎉 Introducing Watermark Waves, a new venture from @watermark_music! This group of worship leaders is passionate about writing songs for our church’s Student Ministry, and they have three NEW songs out now! We hope they remind you that there is JOY and FREEDOM in worshipping Jesus. Find Watermark Waves wherever you listen to music. 🌊 Link in profile.👆

Hey guys, Jon Abel here.

This post is for all you worship leaders. I’m not a “math guy” but out of curiosity, I recently did the math to figure out the cumulative amount of time we have leading songs at our churches in a given year. (1 service per week) On average, we have around 25 minutes of music a week times 52 weeks a year which amounts to approximately 21 hours of time per year that we get to lead our churches in song. 21 HOURS A YEAR!! When I thought about it that way, that time became much more valuable and precious and has motivated me to be more purposeful in how I use it.

I know we’d all agree that as worship leaders leading God’s people, the best thing we can offer them is God’s Word. That said, let’s set that bar high! Let’s be intentional to write and/or lead songs that are rich in God’s Word. What else is living, active, God-breathed, and flawless? What else penetrates our souls and spirits, lights our paths, and endures forever? What else is perfect, leads to life, and sets us free? We have an opportunity to use our gifts of music to remind, teach and build up the Body of Christ with strong theology. Friends, let’s not waste the precious time we’ve been entrusted with to do that.

… Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith — that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”