Worship Confessional : 8 March 2009

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Worship Confessional : 8 March 2009

This post is part of the weekly Sunday Setlists blog carnival over at FredMckinnon.com. Make sure you check out the other setlists too! A few of you have noted my tweets on the Bill Johnson conference I attended with Diane and a few others from our church who've come to know and love Bill through his books, podcasts, etc. I did a post on Friday night after the first session, but haven't quite got around to the Saturday sessions. It's coming... I also tweeted that the last 24/48 hours have been the most amazing of my life. In retrospect, though it's all still very fresh, I do think that statement is true. For what started at the conference on Friday and Saturday continued today in our own services with God continuing to speak to PsG powerfully as he has done these past few weeks. JUST TO CLARIFY: this recap is for my home church services on Sunday, not the Bill Johnson conference which was Friday/Saturday. However, I think it is significant that the content of everything was very similar...and PsG wasn't at Bill's conference. We have been finding this "same word, same timing" thing happening a lot lately with other churches and ministries. Music AM Run (Houston/Hillsong) Happy Day (Hughes/Cantelon/Soul Survivor) To Meet You Here (Goodwin/Scarpato/Harbourside) - I'm particularly fond of this, done for the first time and some great response in both the team and the congregation. Looking forward to doing this again next week. This Is Our God (Morgan/Fielding/Hillsong) PM For Your Glory (Pringle/Christian City Church C3) - from the first C3 album to contain really top quality pop-rock uptempo songs as well as downtempo (in my opinion, anyway :) You'll Come (Fraser/Hillsong) Worship+ Stronger (Morgan/Fielding/Hillsong) Fire Fall Down (Sampson/Hillsong) Jesus' Blood (Delirious?) Message The AM message was "Where Are You : the faith zone or the safe zone ?", which continued on from last week's unplanned message from fresh visions God is giving PsG. These messages have shown a side of our pastor that I've only ever seen glimpses of before, and it's been beautiful to see him show more of his whole self in his preaching. The PM message was a continuation of the morning, titled "Obeying the Voice of God". In a weekend full of meat to chew on, I didn't feel ready for more messages where there is so much to absorb. Of course, God knows much better than I do... Service Summary While not as long as last week, there was a still plenty of desire to stay and soak in the goodness of God after the AM meeting (which is usually fairly time-driven), and nearly everyone was still there worshipping when it finished an hour over time (This Is Our God formed the basis for this). There was a time when lots of people would have had something to say about this sort of thing; I'm really glad we've had a fresh wind blow in and the church is being given back to God for Him to move. The PM meeting was great, and I'll say again how much I love being able to be in the congregation for these meetings. The sound was great, and special shout out to the tech guys for learning from last week :). This young team did a great job of both the service and the free-worship for Worship+; seeing youth flow freely in the Spirit is beautiful. Favourite Moments The AM service video intro thing was really good this week (not particularly funny, but good) which was great after the extremes of the last couple of weeks. PsG was talking about dinner parties at one point, and came out with "I'm not interested in chin-chin with cinzano", which cracked us up anyway :) Annoying Moments Nothing except that the MacBook still wasn't on connected up as the adapter to get the video into the MacBook Pro for ProPresenter, etc wasn't available anywhere. Should be next week. Yeah, I know I've said that before...

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Worship Confessional : 8 March 2009