Mark Pierson

“Maggi Dawn summed this up beautifully when she said, "You have to change to stay the same."9 Worship can't be meaningful and transformative when it's stagnant.”
― Mark Pierson, The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader

“Ashram Cat
When the guru sat down to worship each evening, the ashram cat would get in the way and distract the worshipers. So he ordered the cat be tied up during evening worship. Long after the guru died, the cat continued to be tied up during evening worship. And when the cat eventually died, another cat was brought to the ashram so that it could be dutifully tied up during evening worship. Centuries later, learned treatises were written by the guru's disciples on the essential role of a cat in all properly conducted worship.
That's often the way we operate in the church. We don't ask the right questions, and we overlay our past experiences-or reactions
against them-on what we think we should do for the future.”
― Mark Pierson, The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader