I think we have hit on something…….for a long time we have struggled trying to encourage the people of our church to come into the worship service before service begins…or at least not 15 minutes into the service. In the past we have tried 5:00 minute countdowns, recorded music and even live band music. However nothing seemed to put a fire under the late-comers. Recently we have added a pre-service song led by the band and vocals…it is working. There is something that gets them in the room when they hear live vocals.
Here is our song setlist for September 26, 2010
Pre-service
Our God by Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves, Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman
Songs
God of This City byAaron Boyd, Andrew McCann, Ian Jordan, Peter Comfort, Peter Kernaghan, Richard Bleakley Hosanna (Praise Is Rising), by Paul Baloche
Welcome
Songs
*The intent of the following set was to remind the people that God invites us, pursues us to be a part of His family celebrate the gift of grace that when we say yes to Christ and the response we should have to continue the story by a continued saying yes to God.
Here are the songs we used for this set: How He Loves, by John Mark McMillan Amazing Grace My Chains Are Gone by Chris Tomlin, John Newton, Louie Giglio Christ In Me, by Michael O'Brien
Christ in me is all I want to be Solely You in everything I do Cleanse me today Mold me like the potter's clay Free to be Christ in me CCLI Song No. 2485845 © 2000 Designer Music Group, Inc.
Sermon
We are in a series of sermons presented by Ed Stetzer on the role of the church. You can find an audio file of these sermons here. Ed is filling in for our pastor Mark Marshall who is home recovering from heart surgery. You can read more about Mark's story at his blog.
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