when do you know when to keep pushing an idea or when it's done the part that
makes me want to take a nap is when I have to organize it
that's my sticking point not like creatively you gotta have the
self-awareness to know what's the part where I want to
quit and around that part of your creative process if you can pay
attention to that pattern and you can put something in place that helps you
get through it you'll release more stuff into the world
sometimes that's collaboration I would probably never finish a worship song if
it weren't for co-writing and I know that and so I know oh it's time for me
to bring someone in now on this idea on a sermon it's trickier because ain't
nobody else to bring in on it and I'm gonna tell you another thing be very
careful sharing your creative embryo with
somebody showing it like it's a baby picture cuz all embryos are ugly you
know that right there is no such thing as a cute fetus I
really think that's something right there there's no such thing as a cute
fetus and so when you're telling people like oh check out this this this check
out this thing I quit doing that years ago the reason is because at this stage
of my experience I have enough reps to trust the experience that God has
enabled me to have I don't trust my flesh but I trust the experience that
God is in the gift and and and the position and all that that my anointing
all that that being said if you start trying to explain it to someone it's a
little weird it's like trying to explain a dance but not doing it try it it's the
hardest thing in the world or trying to explain a song but you can't sing it or
you can't make a beat and I always think that when you share something like I
wonder if Instagram makes this worse because we think something and
immediately need validation that it's good rather than you know some of you in the
room are more patient and I admire you because once I have the thought I want
to share it with everybody right now and I don't want to take time and
study it and put it in order that part wears me out and I have to pay attention
to my cycles and if I start sharing it with like Holly for instance she loves
me so much and she is like my number one fan and my mom's my number one fan and I
just said that in case they're both watching they're my Co number one fans
that being said she makes this furrowed face if I start telling her my idea too
soon and she's like it almost happened a minute ago when I said confident in
better things concerning you see how y'all are right now I'm intimidated
because that phrase is loaded with meaning for me because I studied it for
two hours this morning I studied it for two hours I got Abraham Hagar and Sarai
and Isaac all loaded into that phrase for me the Old Covenant the New Covenant
I've got a proverb that connects it's a loaded phrase now but for you it's still
just a phrase so imagine that I'm going 75 miles an hour to get here you're on
the side of the road and I'm like get in and that's what it's like when you've
been thinking of an idea and you're like isn't this great and you're mad that people
don't think it's great but they're still in park and you've been living with this
for a long time and you can see things about it so you have to know when to
slow down and bring people along and you have to know you have to know when to
shut the door and keep people out and then you have to know when is that
moment that I want to subject this creative idea to judgment now maybe I'm
the only one who feels this way I believe everybody has the right to
express their creativity as long as it's not anything you know that violates our
faith you can express it you can write poems sonnets haikus
you know what else you could you can you can write a song if it's for you and the
Lord then the the ultimate goal is just
expression maybe it's therapeutic when you bring it into a church context I'm
not creating a sermon for the purpose of self-expression although that's gonna be
part of it it's an act of service so it's not just oh what inspires me it's
what can I what can I give to others that they can digest and so I can't give
like a two-year-old filet mignon that's called casting pearls before pigs pigs
aren't bad they just don't have any use for pearls it's a conflict of nature so
when you share an idea too soon what I think it does it's like it's like
Salmonella it's like everybody goes away feeling bad it's like you don't think no
the dish was going to be good but but knowing sometimes when an idea I think
that's a muscle that you develop you learn it through failure you learn it
through going wow I thought this was a lot better than it was and then I went
to pitch it and we've all had those moments where you cross the threshold
from this is my personal creative thing that's in my journal and now this is a
blog post the moment that you express it you subject it to judgment I have some
notebooks that I lock up they actually have a lock on them that's where I can
write anything this is not just a prayer notebook this is everything notebook but
I'll lock it up that's not for the pulpit that stuff I'm processing as a
man as a sinner as somebody who has a million questions and then I have to
know God I'm gonna stand before people now what am I ready to share with them
what have you given me enough wisdom on that it's not going to be me bleeding on
them and if it's personal I always have this rule okay mmm
never show your wounds
you cover your wounds so they can heal you show your scars after it is healed
then you can show it to somebody but you don't get up in the pulpit as a preacher
and go y'all me and my wife hadn't spoke all week and I don't know if we will
again this week let's open the Word of God we all struggle and we all need grace
now the whole church is praying so hard for you and your marriage they can't hear
what you're saying but it might be good like after you've come through the other
side of that to do it so God am I ready to share this is this something that's
still too raw is this gonna make everybody sick is this something that
that actually is for another time hey thank you for watching make sure you
subscribe to this channel so you don't miss a single video or live stream and
share this video with a friend and don't forget you can join me live every Sunday
thanks again for watching