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January 01 2008

Kicking off Life Connection’s first worship cd, Habakkuk style

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Part of our vision as a worship band is to support the vision of our church through written song. I believe very strongly in the importance of songs written in the local church, for the local church. Where else do we expect to get God’s vision, God’s word communicated in worship if we aren’t doing it for our own body? Not to say that we should only play songs written in the house, but if we aren’t listening to God and capturing revelation in our own songs, I think we’re missing out. We’re either missing revelation, or we believe God has no revelation for our body, both of those options stink.

In Habakkuk(2:2) God tells him to “write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it”. The literal act of writing down revelation does a few things, it records God’s word and then is now able to be communicated to others. If we pray and hear God and don’t write it down, we lose it quickly and don’t place any importance on what God told us. So as a worship leader when I’m in the word, when I’m praying whatever I hear God speak I must write it down and make it plain for it to be told to others. God has not ceased to speak, but a lot of us have ceased to listen and many more have ceased to remember by giving a passing acknowledgment to revelation instead of determined, studious, laborous commitment to His word by making it plain and letting the herald run with it.

Over the last year I’ve written about 5 worship songs that are slowly getting introduced and into the normal song rotation. Each attempt to address a very specific area in our body. I always had 5 songs earmarked in my head as the magic number to start recording. So over this Christmas break I had some time to get in the studio and get to work. It’s exciting but very challenging at the same time. My recording, writing, mixing instincts don’t exactly fit the worship album mold. It will be interesting to see how this project progresses. I’ll be posting the songs on the blog as we get each song to a somewhat finished state. Stay tuned…

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