Our Sunday morning schedule goes, 7:30-8:30 band practice, 8:30-9:30 prayer, 9:30-10-15 mingle, 10:15 service starts. Our morning prayer is in the sanctuary and everyone is involved, leaders, members, interns, you name it. I can’t really remember a time where prayer was lethargic, dispassionate, disengaged and then have service go really well. I can however, remember many services where prayer went poorly and service followed suit.
One topic I took up in prayer was praying against the lazy, irreverent attitude that has crept into our congregation and into our worship. I felt great conviction about us bowing at the foot of comfort instead of the cross and the irreverent attitude that was causing. Prayer was passionate, people were engaged and I think the Holy Spirit brought to the surface a lot of things our congregation has been struggling with corporately though no one was identifying individually. Well it takes individual conviction to address a corporate issue and I think we took a good step this forward this week as a body.
The worship set went really well. We had a great practice the night before ironing out all our issues, from cabling, to sound board, to amps, to new in-ears, to getting my guitar worked on in the shop. I think everything we did in preparation throughout the week large and small was honored and we played well and didn’t provide any distraction which made it easier for the band to worship, which in turn provided a better example of worship, which created a better corporate atmosphere and engagement in worship. Funny how that works huh? We turned down the suck, thank you Lord.
- The World Can’t Take It Away – Ryan Delmore
- Solid Rock – Delirious (loop available)
- Hosanna – Hillsong United (loop available)
- Where We Belong – Hillsong (loop available)
- Lamb of God – Twila Paris/Sarah Reeves arr.
End of service ministry:
- Come Thou Fount
- How He Loves – John Mark McMillan
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
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Bowing at the foot of comfort… OUCH! Great post, even if it does make me squirm a little…
Kyle,
I was so blessed by prayer also. What a great day it was worshipping in view of Jesus. Great posts I love reading your wrap ups.
Ha! I am loving that about prayer- dag-nab-it that is awesome. I’m getting that same vibe in our church- and it’s time to throw on the gloves and beat it out of our congregation members if I have to. (i jest)
Great set list- as always.
You are like the 3rd person who has had “Come THou Fount” on their set list- and in my office yesterday, i got the revelation of just how powerful those lyrics really were! ha!
Justin: The lyrics to Come Thou Fount are some of the greatest worship lyrics I’ve ever heard. So deep and rich and so many cool ways to arrange that song too. Just a great song. Go put the smack down on your congregation…in love of course.