January 25th, 2008 by Pastor Matt

I am so absolutely refreshed today.  It is fabulous.  We just hired a new worship pastor and the guy is incredible.  They have not moved into town yet and he’s here without his family this weekend to get a house.  I get the absolute privilege of having him at my house for the next few evenings.  Last night he was just sitting at the keyboard playing worship songs for hours.  It was fantastic.  I always love it when my wife gets onto her keyboard and plays, I’ve got to encourage her to do that more!

So anyways, last night I’m sitting there listening to Mike play this incredible song that he wrote and I thought to myself, “I am so jealous of his gift.”  I was about 2 seconds away from deciding to get guitar and voice lessons when I learned something (That’s right… I learned something on my own… nobody taught it to me).  I’ve got gifts that others are jealous of.

That just hit me like a ton of bricks, and for the first time I truly understood “duplication.”  When I was sitting there in my living room listening to Mike, I wanted to be him.  I wanted his gifts, I wanted his voice, his knowledge of music, his creativity… I was watching him do something he loved, and I just knew if I could do that I would love it to.  That’s when I realized that this is the heart of duplication.  This is the “thud” moment.  Where my brain just plops onto the ground because it’s work is done.

The heart of duplication is showing people something that you love, and then showing them how to do it so that they love it to.