Lord, make us ready for our time of worship. I pray that we would be drawn into your presence.
Every time a faithful servant serves
A brother that's in need
What happens at that moment is a miracle indeed
As they look to one another in an instant it is clear
Only Jesus is visible for they've both disappeared
May Jesus be the One who is seen.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
October 18 service
I have a couple of questions regarding Sunday's service that I would like to get people's impressions on.
1. How did the service hold together? Did the worship time mesh with the Word time, etc? The reason I ask is because I did not have the text or sermon theme to work with at the time of putting the service together. I didn't sense something disjointed or anything like that, but I am wondering if there may have been themes that were present even though they were not overtly planned that way.
2. Musically how did our time seem? It was the Sunday of 6/8 time worship in the key of D. :-) Seriously, the songs did flow one into the other. Was that helpful in the flow of the worship in addition to the flow of the music?
As a reminder, these were the songs:
Pre-service:
- Come, Now Is The Time To Worship
- You're Worthy Of My Praise
Opening Worship Time:
- Praise To The Lord The Almighty
- High and Lifted Up
- You are the Lord
Offering:
- Our Father
Closing Song:
- Beautiful One
3. Responses to the new-ish song - You Are The Lord?
Here is a link if you need to hear it again.
I took care to try to make sure all the songs were in a singable key. There is probably no key that works for everyone, but hopefully the key of the songs was not a stumbling block to the message or the moving of the Spirit.
1. How did the service hold together? Did the worship time mesh with the Word time, etc? The reason I ask is because I did not have the text or sermon theme to work with at the time of putting the service together. I didn't sense something disjointed or anything like that, but I am wondering if there may have been themes that were present even though they were not overtly planned that way.
2. Musically how did our time seem? It was the Sunday of 6/8 time worship in the key of D. :-) Seriously, the songs did flow one into the other. Was that helpful in the flow of the worship in addition to the flow of the music?
As a reminder, these were the songs:
Pre-service:
- Come, Now Is The Time To Worship
- You're Worthy Of My Praise
Opening Worship Time:
- Praise To The Lord The Almighty
- High and Lifted Up
- You are the Lord
Offering:
- Our Father
Closing Song:
- Beautiful One
3. Responses to the new-ish song - You Are The Lord?
Here is a link if you need to hear it again.
I took care to try to make sure all the songs were in a singable key. There is probably no key that works for everyone, but hopefully the key of the songs was not a stumbling block to the message or the moving of the Spirit.
Monday, October 12, 2009
October 11 service
This comment I am copying for Laura. It got posted under a different date, but applies to 10/11/09:
Ok, so I have missed the last three Sundays, but was there yesterday and am struggling with what to say. First, I need to ask, why is no one useing and/or commenting on this Blog? There have been no postings since Sept. 13TH. What's up with that? I thought those involved agreed to be part of trying to decipher what the Spirit of God would like to see us change to draw people closer to Him and into a deeper worship of Him. The verse in Revelation from Sunday, "WORSHIP GOD", just keeps resounding in my heart. Also, when Bruce referred to MAKING your grandkids hug you as oppossed to them running into your embrase, really, to me embodies what our own personal worship needs to be. We cannot just rotely sing praise songs and or hymns and expect to give God the glory He deserves or expect to be filled up with the joy of His Holy Spirit. Hence, my thoughts: The worship team needs to select songs that are made to be sung by a body to the Lord as opposed to songs meant to be an offering by a few that the congregation can listen to and be ministered by. The first song Sunday was awesome and I really felt the Spirit trying to do a work in the body, then, not so much! Songs that are complicated to sing along with, or AGAIN, TOO HIGH, lose the congregation fast and the moving of the Spirit is dropped like a hot potatoe! You can just sense the loss! Then, when Jeff got up, BOOM, the Spirit was back, had the body's attention, and WAS POWERFUL! The same with Bruce's sermon, POWERFUL! PRAYER TIME, POWERFUL, COMMUNIION POWERFUL, in spite of the song choices...much love, but we need to confront this as worship teams and be willing to make it about lifting up our Great God and leading the people in need to His strong arms for direction and comfort....It is so not about performance! If we as worship team members will practice before, and then just WORSHIP GOD on Sundays and not be in performance mode, I truly believe we will see His Spirit blanket our worship service and anoint it as He already is anointing Pastor Bruce, readers, and prayers at LOG. Thoughts?
Laura
Ok, so I have missed the last three Sundays, but was there yesterday and am struggling with what to say. First, I need to ask, why is no one useing and/or commenting on this Blog? There have been no postings since Sept. 13TH. What's up with that? I thought those involved agreed to be part of trying to decipher what the Spirit of God would like to see us change to draw people closer to Him and into a deeper worship of Him. The verse in Revelation from Sunday, "WORSHIP GOD", just keeps resounding in my heart. Also, when Bruce referred to MAKING your grandkids hug you as oppossed to them running into your embrase, really, to me embodies what our own personal worship needs to be. We cannot just rotely sing praise songs and or hymns and expect to give God the glory He deserves or expect to be filled up with the joy of His Holy Spirit. Hence, my thoughts: The worship team needs to select songs that are made to be sung by a body to the Lord as opposed to songs meant to be an offering by a few that the congregation can listen to and be ministered by. The first song Sunday was awesome and I really felt the Spirit trying to do a work in the body, then, not so much! Songs that are complicated to sing along with, or AGAIN, TOO HIGH, lose the congregation fast and the moving of the Spirit is dropped like a hot potatoe! You can just sense the loss! Then, when Jeff got up, BOOM, the Spirit was back, had the body's attention, and WAS POWERFUL! The same with Bruce's sermon, POWERFUL! PRAYER TIME, POWERFUL, COMMUNIION POWERFUL, in spite of the song choices...much love, but we need to confront this as worship teams and be willing to make it about lifting up our Great God and leading the people in need to His strong arms for direction and comfort....It is so not about performance! If we as worship team members will practice before, and then just WORSHIP GOD on Sundays and not be in performance mode, I truly believe we will see His Spirit blanket our worship service and anoint it as He already is anointing Pastor Bruce, readers, and prayers at LOG. Thoughts?
Laura
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I haven't posted here in a few weeks. But I want to again invite the other designated authors to initiate posts at any time. And anyone can reply to existing posts.
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