To be given a chance to serve and worship the King of kings is an awesome experience for me. I’ve been trying to understand His reasons and ways of granting such grand opportunity to people like us, but I find it really beyond my range. I may be an instrument with a very limited capability; but His grace is amazing, patient and constant. I can’t find a more appropriate response to that uncommon privilege but to submit my life for the pleasure and the glory of the Master, and to offer Him the kind of service that He deserves.

I believe that how we serve Him as worship ministers is just as important as why we do it. If we truly and fully understand the reason behind our calling; our actions should not be revealing something contradictory. Psalm 40:3 says “He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.” But the quality in which we express this “hymn of praise” musically is also important to God and even to the people that we wanted to “put their trust in the Lord”. The world that we are reaching out is familiar and exposed to progressive, cutting-edge, high quality art. A culture that is critical with its acceptance of what’s OK, “cool” and brilliant. I wonder how they (the Simon Cowells of this world) would perceive the God we worship if we do not value excellence in our worship music.

The Word of God commands us to sing to Him a new song and playing skillfully (psalm 33:1). In 1st Chronicles 25, the Levites who were appointed by King David “for the music in the house of the Lord” were “instructed in the songs of the Lord” and are skillful (verse 6). Simple as it may sound, but we know that this journey is not an easy ride. It may begin with an honest evaluation of our abilities, a decision to go to the next level then moving on with hard work, discipline, and attention to detail; I believe we’ll get by with the rough roads along the way.

Let that desire to glorify God with the best that we can offer, continue to burn in our hearts. Feel free to browse through these pages and let that zeal be fanned and fueled by resources and tools that will help us to be better as we keep on making His praise Glorious!

                                                                                                                                                            In Him,

                                                                                                                                                            PAUL ARMESIN
                                                                                                                                                            Chairman, Jesus' Army of Musicians (JAM)                                                                                                                                                             Jesus Is Lord Church