Eighteen Inches

The distance from my head to my heart.
A blog about Worship, Christianity and Synthesizers.

Sunday January 23, 2011 (Setlist)

Sunday, January 23, 2011

At The Gate we do our worship in two separate set's. One is at the very beginning of the service with 4 songs to start. The second is after the preaching with 3 songs to finish off the service. We found this is a really good way to bookend the morning with worship beginning and ending the service. We also have communion every Sunday, so having 3 songs of worship after the preaching is a great way to flow from preaching to communion. Worship just seems like a natural response to what we just heard from the Word.

In our band we basically have 3 worship leaders; Greg who leads off guitar, myself leading from the piano/synths, and Austrian who is our female vocalist. Today Austrian couldn't make it to church, so I led a couple of songs that she was going to lead. I'm not the most confident singer in the world, but I'm trying to stretch myself and lead more songs to become a better leader. Austrian's absence was a good push to step into that lead role. I've always thought that it's funny that God gifted me as a musician but decided not to stretch that talent into my vocals. I'm not a terrible singer, but I'm definitely not the best. I think with some training I'll become better and with more sundays like today where I'm forced to take more songs I will grow as a vocalist.

So here was our setlist this morning...
Great In All The Earth (Starfield) (Greg lead)
Holy Is Our God (Starfield) (Greg lead)
You're Everything (David Crowder Band) (Steve lead)
Beautiful (Phil Wickham) (Steve lead)
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White As Snow (Jon Foreman) (Steve lead)
Sweetly Broken (Jeremy Riddle) (Greg lead)
What A Miracle (David Crowder Band) (Greg lead)

Worship went really well today. I sort of worry a bit about the really synth heavy songs like What A Miracle. I worry that the music will detract from the actual worship and overtake the lyrics of the song. This is the third time we've played What A Miracle, the other 2 times we did it as the first song in the first set but this time we did it last and it seemed to go over better. By the second set the congregation usually seems to be in a more worshipful attitude. By doing it first the last couple times it was a good way to introduce the song as a sort of "opener", but now that we've done it a couple times and people are more used to the song we did it as a closer and it went great.

I feel really blessed to be a part of such a great Christian community. Our church is so open to creativity, and I love that we can push those musical boundaries without worrying about people complaining. In our church it's quite the opposite. It seems like the more creative and interesting the music, the more people like it.

Good sunday.

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