Worship Textfessional – November 25, 2007

All in all, we had a great morning together at OBC on Sunday. One of our worship volunteers led the services and he did a great job. I love his enthusiasm when he’s leading and his ability to speak through song transitions to lead people from one song to the next – he did an exceptionally good job with that on Sunday, I thought.

We started with a very solid set – “That’s Why We Praise Him” and “Your Love Is Amazing” are both favourites of our church so even though I broke a string (again!) during the second song at the 9:00 service, the congregation carried along just fine without me. It also helped that we had an incredibly solid piano player on the team. We did a key change in the first song and took it up from C to D in the bridge so we had people really belting out right from the first song.

Our second set flowed really nice – “Everlasting God” and “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” with a responsive reading from Psalm 37 thrown in the middle. We were talking this week about the faithfulness and provision of God in our times of worry and also in our times of greed – look through Luke 12 and see how Jesus tells people to respond in each of those situations. Pretty interesting.

Our response section was the hilight for me in both services. We found a really nice arrangement of “Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus” and then blew the roof off the place with “Step By Step” by adding the “Forever We Will Sing” like Smitty does on his worship album.

So 3 sections of 2 songs each which some people don’t like but by playing around with transitions, scripture elements and dynamics we were able to make each section on its own very strong and they worked together to pull off a really good service on Sunday morning.