March 30 2009
Sunday Set List: “In spite of the band”
Tagged Under : church, Hillsong, John Mark McMillan, Kyle Campos, Ryan Delmore, Sarah Reeves, Sunday Set List, Twila Paris, Vineyard, worship
Yesterday was rough from a music point of view. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time you know I’m pretty critical of myself and the music. Well you didn’t need to be very critical to know there were some major problems. So much so that I really wasn’t looking forward to this post at all and was considering skipping it. In short we just had problems hearing the click and our time was all over the place which led to some meltdowns. There’s several things we need to fix to make sure this never happens again and it’s on top of my priority list for this week to fix. Need to turn down the suck asap.
So as we walked off stage I’m feeling really frustrated and wishing we could just have a do-over. I take my 10 minutes to drink some water, cool down a bit and try and get re-focused back on service. I walk back into the sanctuary and Pastor Aaron is preaching on Jesus, who Jesus is, who he is not and who we worship him as. Straight up gospel. One thing you have to understand is we have a lot of new Christians and then some churched folks and I’m not sure which one of those groups has heard less about Jesus or who has a more messed up Christology.
It rocked people to the core and as I walked up at the end to play Lamb of God for the alter call, I was humbled more so than I can remember. People are coming up to give their lives to Jesus and I realize how small I am and how unimportant my “gift” is to the kingdom. And it was GREAT! It was less of me more of you Jesus, played out in front of me. I was crying in the back of the stage because it was almost like I tried my best to screw things up and God showed so much grace that he moved powerfully despite my best efforts.
So worship leaders remember that when you’re thinking that one magic ministry song is really going to usher in the spirit. We don’t boss the spirit around by playing sweet music. Don’t get me wrong, let’s play good music, nobody wants to hear crap…but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking music mediates the presence of God, cause I just saw that it surely doesn’t.
- The World Can’t Take It Away – Ryan Delmore
- Skeleton Bones – John Mark McMillan (loop not yet available)
- How I Live – Kyle Campos (loop available)
- So Near – Vineyard UK (loop available)
- With Everything – Hillsong (loop available)
- Lamb of God – Twila Paris / closer to Sarah Reeves arrangement (end of service)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
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Hey Kyle,
That’s awesome! You’ve learned early-on one of the most important lessons I’ve learned in my life.
We do our best, but we’re human and sometimes things go wrong. God, however, is always on the top of his game. And handles all the things I worry about, without ever making me feel worse.
It is a huge relief to realize how small we are and how big God is. Amen!!
Two comments I have son – 1. John Wimber, when asked what he did to prepare for ushering in the Holy Spirit when he spoke said “I have a diet Coke”. His answer was to illustrate that he has NO control over when and how the Spirit would move. and 2. I remember VC Santa Barbara’s first service at the Victoria Street Theatre – the place was full 700+ and my worship band was all practiced up – WE WERE GONNA ROCK! – the drummer counted the first song down, and the first chord I hit on my piano tripped a breaker, NO POWER. That was embarrassing AND humbling. After that was fixed, my attitude was sure changed from ME to worshiping HIM>
Hey Kyle,
I’m glad you posted this … it’s called a “confessional” because we “confess”, right? I’ve been in that situation on more than one occasion where I realize that we take ourselves WAY too seriously.
Thanks for being a part of “Sunday Setlists” every week.
Hello, Kyle;
Had a similar Sunday, full of misfires, missed ques and mis-focused band mates.
I always want us to do our best work. But, in His faithfulness, He is showing me that my ’spirit of excellence’ (a possible conceit) is not His Spirit of Holiness.
No matter how good I am on any given day, it is only He who truly touches & transforms hearts toward Truth. Likewise, and thankfully, a bad day can be a distraction, but He is not hampered.
…in Him;
-dm
Thanks Dad for the encouragement and good story, that’s pretty classic.
Fred: Yeah this certainly puts the confess in confessional
Thanks for hosting these setlists and the RT.
Daniel: Great point on excellence vs holiness. Takes a completely abiding spirit to be able to discern where we’ve lost sight of the ultimate truth in exchange for possibly a valid practical truth, but not the *ultimate* truth.
Kyle, totally agree! That was a rough set to say the least and I thought that everyone in the congregation was surely distracted by our musical flubs but…..that was not the case at all…..in fact, the Spirit was moving quite powerfully in spite of us. As one of the ladies that we have been praying for came up at the end of service to give her life to Christ it really put things in perspective and as we celebrated what God had done in her heart all I could think is Thank you Jesus for all that You are and all that I’m not!
I’ll tell you what sucks. A great music set and God exiting the building. Fantastic post my friend. You are in the right place!
This has to be one of my favorite posts.
and I love the way that He shows us when we think all is lost.
How true is that?!?!?! Sometimes we do (i am speaking from a re-occuring-right-now) experience.) take ourselves way to seriously and pressure ourselves into thinking that WE cause changes in hearts by our music- when we just need to gently reminded that it’s Him not us.
Thanks for sharing. It’s nice to know that other people have days like this too.