You can’t work in harmony unless you’re willing to play second fiddle.
That dawned on me as I listed to my daughter Meghan practice her part, the harmony, for several tunes her bagpipe band plays. They kinda sorta sounded like the tunes to me, but all on their own, they weren’t very pretty.
I know some of you are thinking: “Bagpipes? When do they ever sound pretty?”
OK, so maybe it’s an acquired taste. But when a pipe band is playing melody and harmony, it can be a beautiful thing. Like when our family was able to hear Simon Fraser University Pipe Band play Pachabel’s Canon …
Sorry, where was I? Oh, right …
The point I want to make holds true even if you don’t like the pipes. For the whole thing to work, one group has to take the less-pretty part, the harmony, the part that’s also called “seconds.”
At the level at which her band competes, it’s not possible to be successful without “seconds.”
Likewise, in order to plant churches among remote, unreached tribal people, you need more than just church planters. You must have a team of logistical missionaries. And each missionary – in church planting or in logistics – needs a team that is actively standing with them.
Thank you for working in harmony with us as together we “play second fiddle” alongside church planters, so the ministry can succeed.
Now let’s rosin up the bow. That’s fiddler-speak for, “Let’s get going.”
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We’d love to hear from you. Don’t make me play the pipes for you!
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