Preposterousness
pre·pos·ter·ous [priˈpostərəs] adj : absurd; or ... how God's ways appear to man
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Worship Confessional : Sun 22 Feb 2009
This post is part of the Sunday Setlists blog carnival over at FredMcKinnon.com
Seeing if I can add a bit of structure to these confessionals...let me know if you like or don't like :)
Music:
10.30AM
While lots of people were late for our pre-service practice, it went smoothly, but meant we didn't have time to practice another aspect of the morning...see "Least Favourite Moment" further down the post.
Happy Day (Hughes/Cantelon) - our church is loving this, glad we left learning it til very late in the piece :)
Now Is The Time (Delirous?) - wow I love this song, and with the chorus being our church theme for the year, finally we had an excuse to learn it. The congregation got into it very quickly, particularly identifying with the social justice themes in the bridge
From The Inside Out (Houston) - it's been a while since we did this, and I mixed it up a bit by getting Rach to lead instead of me. It's high in her range, and the fragility was beautiful.
The Simple Truth (Goodwin) - one of mine, uses a synth loop at the beginning before going live band...ends with a HUGE triumphal tag, which kept the congregation hanging for more
Lead Me To The Cross (Fraser) - before the preaching, this was an unplanned sweet soft song. We would usually repeat one of the fast songs. Something different was needed for today
Run (Houston) - after an awesome altar call and time of healing prayer where the team did what we do best - free worship - PsG wanted this to close. So we did :)
5.00PM
As usual our Ablaze Youth Band led the evening service. They had a rotten practice before hand. The service was amazingly awesome. God is GREAT!
What The World Will Never Take (Sampson/Houston)
Mighty To Save (Morgan/Fielding)
Desert Song (Fraser)
Worship+
The ministry time at the end of our PM service extends into free-worship. I was part of leading this tonight, which I love almost as much as I love being led into worship by these kids :) Tonight we had 1 salvation, and 4 people speak in tongues for the first time. We free worshipped over the chorus of Mighty To Save for around 20 minutes, before we did You'll Come (Fraser) and Redeemer (Murgida - one of our own anointed songs, and will be the first one we record properly when we hit the studio in April) and free-worshipped over the bridge of that song through to the end of the night, around 50 minutes on these 3 songs. There is something incredible about being in a place where so many spiritual tongues are being sung with such conviction.
Preaching : AM - Connecting People with God & Others PM - Three Battles Everyone Faces. Both great messages, as usual, though the volume was up too loud and the mix was overly sibilant. (I love that word, and I get to use it a lot since it describes my voice all the time). However, considering we have no-one in our church who actually really knows how any of the equipment works, the tech guys do well.
Most Favourite Moment : Apart from the Worship+ time tonight, the other fave moment has nothing to do with the substance of the day. This may be a bit sad, but in a day of highlights, picking just one means a fun one is the most likely to make it in here. There's a few of us in church who are English language freaks, and often discuss the subject that all preachers obviously take in college teaching them how to artfully create new words, or mix things up in other interesting ways. We call it the Pastor's Linguistic Anointing. Today, the anointing flowed most beautifully when my non-twittering pastor made reference to being "bitter and twittered". I doubt he even knows what Twitter is actually...hardly anyone I know IRL has even the vaguest concept of social media outside Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn.
Least Favourite Moment : We're trying a new way of opening the service (with a video countdown, yada yada yada). We didn't have a lot of time to practice it. It was OK. Sometimes I don't like the showbiz aspects of our church model. It's not what I'd personally do, but it's the vision of my church, so it needs to become my vision too. It is, but sometimes Satan wants me to think otherwise. It's not about me, is it :)
What about you? How was your "corporate worship encounter" this weekend?
