Brody Harper is the road manager for Phil Wickam. He and Phil just finished up a huge tour with The David Crowder band. In today's post he goes through everyone on the tour and says something meaningful about each one. What he wrote about David Crowder was especially important:
This guy blew me away on this tour. I had toured with him before when they opened for Third Day, but never got a chance to really know him. This tour he seemed to open up a little more and gained so much of my respect. Every idea this guy has is innovative and creative, but then there were times where he showed that he is an amazing servant as well. One thing that stuck out to me the most was the idea behind the tour. “Be the remedy”. David said every night from stage to a room full of people there to see him, “If you all lived the way you are singing tonight, this planet would be a different place”. A lot of us have heard that before, but David lived that way. Every day he would research what organizations were in the specific city that we were in and hand write an entire sheet of paper on how to get involved. Whether it be soup kitchens, homeless shelters, women’s shelters, Salvation Army shelters, then he would make copies of the paper and have people pass it out to everyone that came through the door. He was off the bus before most people and in on the stage setting up his own gear, helping out where it was needed.Another thing that blew me away was with the bus stock (the groceries that were on the bus for the crew for after the show and off days). About once a week, after the show David and his wife Toni would go with a runner while everyone was tearing things down and go grocery shopping. Then when everyone else had finished and was winding down, they would show up at the bus with bags and bags of groceries that they had gone and bought for us. Sometimes specific things we had asked for, some things they knew we just liked. Then he would help unpack everything and help put it all away on our bus. For some reason this just seemed absurd to me. Here is a guy who is on the tour of his life. Headlining an almost completely sold out tour in some of the most amazing venues in the country and he is “the guy”. He is the guy the band is named after. He’s the guy the tour is named after and here he is making sure me and everyone else on our bus has enough macaroni and cheese, cereal and cookies.
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I love this. This is what it's all about and (amongst many other things) a great example of serving our own people on our teams etc. as we should in the church. As leaders, we should always consider ourselves the servant, as Christ did. not the one TO be served. The first shall come last and the last shall be first. What little things can we do to serve our people day in day out? What would make a difference in their life or serving experience? How can we be Christ to them in the smallest of ways that sometimes mean BIG things to them? What does it mean to the tech team member for the "big guy on stage" to serve THEM? Obviously huge things. Way to go David.
Ok, Zach is going to accuse me to be the cynical one here, but please hear me out. While everything said here is great and I'm happy to hear it, the fact that it is newsworthy says more about CCM and the church than anything. Why are we shocked to hear that famous people are "real" and actually act in a Christlike manner? Isn't that what we are all called to? Why is it surprising that someone who is a worship leader is also a servant leader? Isn't that a command of Christ? As I said, I'm glad to hear this, but I'm pretty sure that Mr. Crowder would agree that the fact that his biblical lifestyle is something worth publishing speaks volumes about our sad state of affairs.
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