Posted by Joe Day

Today is my last day here at The City. It is surreal to type these words.

I love my job. I love the team. I love helping the church. This is easily the best job I have ever had and I can positively say I love it more today than I ever have.

For my entire career, I have been working as a designer to support my ministry endeavors as a worship leader. Many of you live in the same tension. It’s hard work to juggle the joys and demands of family, career and calling. Yet it’s the experience of the vast majority of church leaders.

People who know me know I’m passionate about creating music that illuminates God’s activity in this world. I’m passionate about leading worship, songwriting, pouring into worship leaders, and creating. For the past 12 years, I’ve done this aspect of ministry as a volunteer, longing for the opportunity to apply myself to it full-time.

So, when the opportunity came, I was glad, but conflicted. When your career and ministry intersect, how do you leave the job you’re passionate about for the ministry you’re passionate about? How do you chose between passion and passion?

This is a problem I never imagined I’d have, and one I’ve grown to thank God for. It would have been easy to walk away from any of my previous jobs at a moment’s notice to be able to focus my energy as a full-time worship pastor. But there would have been nothing costly about it. Now, the transition begins with worship: making a costly decision to follow Jesus where he is leading. There is no career, no comfort, no thing better than dropping the best of what you have for the best of what Christ has because he is good and he loves us more than we know. And so it is with a full heart, and a great deal of excitement that I move into my new position as worship director for Mars Hill Shoreline.

How do you chose between passion and passion? Look at Jesus. He is the answer.

Onward.