Worship Confessional… 4-10-09
Well, the service wasn’t ON a Sunday, so it can’t be a Sunday Setlist, right? That’s the logic behind the different title anyway…
So, we had our Good Friday service last night. We did a candlelight communion service – lots of music, some scripture & a (very) short message. And it was the most attended communion service we’ve had to date! yay!
Das Muzik:
- When I Survery The Wondrous Cross
~ The choir sang this, and the melody was similar to The Water Is Wide.. Very lovely - The Love Of God [A]
- Forever (The Nails In Your Hands) [D]
~ The Legend of the Three Trees – Kids Story Time
~ Communion Intro
~John 12:23-36
~ John 14:1-21 - You Gave Your Life Away [E]
- How Deep The Father’s Love For Us [D]
- Here Is Love [D]
- Lead Me To The Cross [D]
~Message - I’m Amazed [C]
We found this beautiful arrangement of The Wonderous Cross that starts out with a solo, adds in the women, and adds in parts on the 3rd verse. I got feedback that there were goosebumps, which is always a good response!
In case you aren’t seeing the trend… we were focusing in on the fact that God loves us enough to sacrifice His Son/die on a cross for US. When you really stop to think about that, it’s pretty amazing.
Jen R led You Gave Your Life Away (similar to Kathryn Scott’s version) and How Deep The Father’s Love (which meant I got to sing harmony – yay!). I led Here Is Love and ended up singing a solo for Lead Me To The Cross. P. Chris ended up alternating between bass and keyboard last night, which was pertty cool. He usually plays lead guitar, but he also plays piano very well. I have recently decided that Lead Me To The Cross is really a song for the piano… no, really. Try it sometime.
We finished up with I’m Amazed, which really sums up what this weekend is all about.
We generally fit the songs together in such a way that the worship team can rotate off the stage throughout those 4 songs and participate in taking communion. Unfortunately we ran out of some essential items for the service… namely the bread and grape juice! Not sure how that happened, but I know of at least 10 people who didn’t get to participate (namely the worship team, Eric and a couple of others) Oops!
The biggest issue I had was simply that more & more I’m finding that I can’t sing all that low anymore. I’m a soprano, and as such should avoid singing below mid C if I can help it. No, I really should. An octave or 2 above mid C are fine, but below needs to be avoided.
I’d love any feedback from those who attended the service – how did it go?
Oh, and this post is part of Fred’s Sunday Setlist carnival.
5 comments
I love The Wondrous Cross. Great rework and chorus addition of an old hymn. We used to use that one a lot.
Thanks for sharing!
Love the order.. I’m going to reference it for next year’s Maundy Thursday services.. loved the songs and the creativity.
I love “When I survey”! You don’t hear this one very often but it is definitely my favorite hymn.
BTW: I really like the Kathryn Scott version of “When I survey”. It’s one worth checking out.
Russ – This version of Wondrous Cross was very different – the melody was similar to “The Water Is Wide” and was just the 3 verses. It was beautiful though. Thanks for stopping by!
Steff – I will have to look that up – I love that hymn as well. We do the updated version pretty often (with the added in chorus) but I wanted something that would give people a chance to really stop and listen to the words. I’ll have to check out Kathryn’s version (I love most of her stuff too!)
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