Worship Confessional
This blog entry is part of Sunday Setlist.
Today I preached so I was able to enjoy and worship wholeheartedly from the front today. A rare treat for me, daughter#1 was in a daddy mood so I held her while we worshipped together. It was a great moment, she snuggled into my neck and stroked my hair (her sugar, as she likes to call it) while we danced together. At one point she even put her hand up in the air while we sang Happy Day. She usually loves her friends so much at church, and that combined with me being up on stage, mean I don’t get to spent a lot of time with her at church, but that just makes moments like today all the sweeter.
Anyway, enough of me, on to the set for today.
Kirsty (vox) led, ably assisted by Sarah (vox), Jordan (drums), Phil (bass), Ji (keys), Darcy (electric guitar & vox) & Celso (acoustic guitar & vox).
She opened with Happy Day by Tim Hughes, we dropped this song for a few months but it’s enjoying it’s revival. Everyone loves it and it’s a great way to get the meeting started.
Next up was Yesterday, Today & Forever by Vicky Beeching. We’ve only done this one a handful of times so far, Kirsty was the one who introduced it. It’s fast becoming a favourite as people really start to learn it.
Today’s sketch by Jeff & Christine was hilarious, they gave a *different* view on what the Kingdom of God was and ended up beating seven bells out of each other. Christine (fake) kneed Jeff in his family jewels (what’s an appropriate term for that area when you’re writing a worship confessional?? - I tried, and deleted 3 others before settling on this one) and Jeff flew across the stage narrowly missing the drum kit, but I’m sure that was planned.
Our third song was Give Us Your Courage by Tim Hughes, Sarah and Kirsty had a fantastic blend of voices on this song, the harmonies were wonderful to hear.
This transitioned nicely into Love Came Down by Ben Cantelon, a song I never have any trouble getting lost in. Altogether it was a really good set today, it flowed well and the team worked great together. Good job everyone!
I spoke on the Kingdom of God, it was well received and I had a lot of great feedback after the meeting. I ended by posing the question, ‘are you prepared to let Jesus be your King?’
Which transitioned nicely into our closing song, King by Tree63, which allowed people to make the declaration that yes, ‘Jesus You are our King!’
There was something special about the meeting today, we were packed out (with lots of new people!) which always helps, but there was an extra special sense of the presence of God today, maybe it was just that I was able to appreciate it a little more by having a different role today.
