The Service Order (set list):
Singing Together
- Rising [Baloche / Redman]
Welcome / Announcements / Greeting & Encouragement Time
Singing Together
- Indescribable [Story]
- For These Reasons [Brewster]
- Take My Life and Let it Be (Passion version) [HAVERGAL (Arrangement. & additional lyrics Tomlin & Giglio]
Children’s Message – Letitia “The Good Shepherd”
Offertory
- Video: The Motions, by Matthew West http://tinyurl.com/d48s8a
Video intro to Message: East Valley Church Graduates Highlight Video
Message – Pastor Pat, “Dropping Our Nets – Avoiding Going Through the Motions of Life” Matthew 4:18-20
Singing Together
- I Surrender All [Van DeVenter / Weeden]
The Recap:
Rising Another great call to worship! Love it!
We’ve gathered to worship
Becoming a choir to sing Your praise
Lifting our voices, joining our hearts in this house today
People of God in the power of God
For the Kingdom of God we sing
Indescribable / For These Reasons / Take My Life and Let it Be As I was planning the songs for this week, this progression of songs just clicked – based on Pastor Pat’s message. We did this same progression on April 19…nothing wrong with that, just noticed that as I was planning. We sang Indescribable, then, as an introduction to For These Reasons I read/prayed Romans 11:35-12:1, how we come from many different places to worship this morning, and how God is faithful and worthy of our praise. We went right in to Take My Life (I could sing the added chorus a while…):
Here am I, all of me
Take my life, it’s all for thee.
I Surrender All I love this hymn and know it is a meaningful song to quite a few at East Valley. It’s cool when the Holy Spirit confirms song selections…as Pastor Pat and I were talking about service plan, he asked if we could sing this as the final song. I had already plugged it in! Thank you, GOD!
The Confessional:
For all those who read this post and are not worship leaders, I will offer a dose of reality: sometimes worship leaders are just grumps – we’re not always UP, happy, cheerful folk. That was me this morning – at least for part of it. I left home without my church keys and so everything quickly spiraled from there – which is tough for me as one who is obsessed with doing things well in everything I do. God was glorified and exalted this morning in spite of my grouchiness (most people probably didn’t even notice). I am thankful that God is gracious and forgiving and can use even a worship leader with a “tude” (hey, he used a donkey…he can use a grouchy worship leader!)
Point two in Pastor Pat’s message was my Heavenly Father’s way of figuratively touching my chin and lifting my head:
Trust God…Not the Nets:
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
How often we equate success and doing well in terms that may or may not be good measures. How often I trust the nets.
I was better by the end of the first service. Man…I needed a nap this afternoon!
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This post is part of the Fred McKinnon service Set list extravaganza!
Seems to have been the week for Indescribable and I Surrender All, but I missed that memo. Both great great songs.
Glad you got your joy back as the day went on, great analogy with the donkey
…and yes, naps are gggoooooddd.
Dood, I know the feeling oh so well! I am the same kind of person that just wants to do everything excellently and to the best of my ability and forgetting my keys has to be one of the things that I LOATHE the most. On a Sunday morning the last thing we need is distraction right? In the midst of it all God reminds me that it’s not a distraction, that He knew it was going to happen and to just relax, He’s got everything in motion and under control.
Haven’t heard all these tunes, gonna have to search out a couple and check em out.
Blessings!
I left my music folder at home and had to turn around to retrieve it, putting me about ten minutes later than usual. Not late, mind you, but out of my element, so I didn’t have the normal warm up. Yeah…I can relate to how worship leaders can be grumps.
While putting together lists, I sometimes notice that I’ll group songs together the same as I did months prior. I guess sometimes they just work well, eh?
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Hey there,
Sorry for the late reply. I introduced the service this past week at the very beginning. Encouraging people to let the Spirit move them and listen to God as to when and with whom they would take communion with. We also encouraged folks that if they needed to reconcile with someone, to use the communion time to do so. Some folks actually did! Wow…
Then we worshipped for 40 minutes while people took communion at different times…it was really nice
Thanks for the encouraging feedback and I can see from your confessional you can identify with things going south!
I like the fact you cited the actual composer of Indescribable; a great GITS song and one of my favorites.
Have fun with the Bible Reading adventure; it will be awesome! I’ve been reading the Bible through every year since 86. My current one year plan takes me through the OT once, Psalms twice, Proverbs twice, and NT 5 times!!!
Doug