Production isn't everything

So, God created me as a technical artist and I think about tech stuff all the time. I think about every problem from a production viewpoint first. That's how God designed the body of Christ to work: each of us is made to fill a certain role. Mine is production.

The beauty of this is that I have been given the opportunity to spend a good bit of my time focused on production. The bummer of this is that I can forget that I am a part of something bigger. I work at a church. The church has needs. The congregation has needs. Other ministries have needs. I am one part of the whole. Like all good production people, I can be obsessed with my thing being the most important. It is important, but rarely the most important.

I was thinking about an event that our church was doing. The list of wants for this event require a certain level of production that costs lots of money. What is acceptable to me or my department requires a ticket price that isn't affordable. Is it better to not do the event at all or to lower the production bar? My humanness says, don't do the event.

Or...is the event worth doing in spite of the production value or lack thereof? Is it possible that people's lives can be changed regardless of the level of production? Whatever church you might be a part of, can you have honest conversations with your leadership about how far can we lower the production bar and still have a quality event? I know that I have to be willing to ask the question and be open handed with whatever the answer might be.

I am not sure what the answer is, but I am a part of something bigger than just production. I am a part of the church. It is easy to worship the gospel of great production values instead of the Gospel that changes people's lives.