What up, worship world??
This week I led at the college and young adult service.
Here's what went down.
Be Still
original opener by myself and Tim Hull (you can check it out here) http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=71244992
it's the third song in the player
Sweetly Broken (Jeremy Riddle )
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How He Loves (John Mark Mcmillan /Kim Walker version)
For All You've Done (Ruben Morgan )
How Great Is Our God (Tomlin )
We had a great drummer filling in this week, but he is not used to playing with a loop or a click track. We made it through with the loop on our original "Be Still" but we had to cut out the loop in the middle of "How He Loves" because we were a few beats ahead after the first strong chorus. Ouch....
People still connected with the song..(God is good!)
Speaking of connecting... no matter how tired I am of "How Great Is Our God" we continue to get a huge response from the congregation on that one.....amazing!
Random worship question for anyone who wants to weigh in..
Do you think it's more of a potential problem or potential benefit for the worship leader and church pastor to be married??
Thoughts??
Check out what was going in services all around the world this week here http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/03/15/sunday-setlists-34/
it was a good set, it was cool having cj there as well. as for the question the jury is still out.
ReplyDeleteworship that week was really awesome, i'm not sure if it was the new energy that the fill-in drummer brought or what, but it was great.
ReplyDeleteuh oh..
the worship leader sleeps w/ the pastor... :)
p.s.
-I'd just like to say that this is THE cutest blog on the block!
We've struggled with this at Grace, even to the point of trying to have a verbal policy between the leadership and the elders not to hire married couples into the same staff, full time. There is a lot of potential for awkward situations when one spouse is having a problem at work, or needs to be let go, and it effects (obviously) the other staff member.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I think we're coming around on this. I was just talking to Derek about it at Unleash, since Newspring seems to have a bunch of couples on staff. I think I've come to the conclusion that it is a risk, and it can be awkward, but it's worth it, and it just makes sense.
Just like our conversation about small groups, sometimes we try to solve potential problems by making policy, when instead we should accept some measure of messiness and solve it relationally.
Peace. You're awesome.
awesome set! how fun!!!
ReplyDeleteGood job worshiping through the click track fiasco. I remember pulling my in-ears out of my ears before because something just wasn't quite right. I'm not really sure which was worse... playing with something very WRONG in your ears or not having ears at all (playing blindly).
We also did "Sweetly Broken".
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the fact that your doing church in a bar, that's really going into the world. I have strong opinions about people sitting in chruches waiting for the "skeptics" to walk in the door. We have to meet people where they are in life. It's why I spend way more time hanging out at Satrbucks, rather than participating in a bunch of church activities.
Um, intersting question. I'd say both. Ours is the main pastor and a back up worship leader (not the staff worship leader). They are newlyweds, and she came from another church.
It creates some interesting dymanics for us. I'd suggest that it is extremly important to respect boundries. I liked what Brian said.
I love "How He Loves" Great song! Do you sing the sloppy wet kiss part or do you change the words?
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