This past Sunday we spent almost all of our pre-service practice time on a new arrangement for Nothing But the Blood and The Great God, leaving 3 songs basically ignored. That’s not something I’m comfortable with doing at all. The arrangement for Nothing But the Blood came out great, I was really pleased how it worked in practice, but we were struggling big time with The Great God. I ended up basically halting our practice on that song saying I’m gonna lead it acoustically, let’s simplify everything. We ran through it once, not even sure if we got all the way through it, and then we had to move on.
At the end of practice my confidence in our set was not high at all, but I had confidence that God could and would get accomplished what He wanted. Times like this are great for context, and I actually am really thankful for them. God reminds me of his greatness in my weakness, it’s tough to remember that when we are playing great, sad but true. My pride is constantly telling me I have much to boast in outside of Christ and I have to keep killing that. I am thankful for these times when God takes a shovel to that pride and digs it out. My desperate prayer is that it would be replaced with deeper humility.
We ended up playing the set really well, God moved, the church worshipped in unity and God was glorified. Amen.
- Led to the Slaughter – Red Letter
- How Great Thou Art – Carl Boberg (Ascend the Hill arr.)
- The Great God – Kyle Campos
- Nothing But the Blood – Robert Lowry
- Love of God – Ryan Delmore
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