Worship Confessional – Sunday, September 27, 2009

“How Big Is Our God” – 1 Kings 19
Call to Worship
Holy Is The Lord – G
Unchanging – G
In Christ Alone – D
Meet & Greet
Announcements
Offering
Yahweh – Hillsong – B
Message – “Big Enough To Restore”
Restore My Soul – Andi Rozier – E

This was the third week of our series looking at the life of Elijah and how God’s big-ness is displayed over and over again in his life. After looking at the “showdown at high noon” last week, we see an Elijah who is afraid, depressed, angry and totally without hope. How quickly Elijah goes from the mountaintop (literally!) experience of seeing God do the incredible to the desert (literally!) experience of questioning God’s call on his life.

Three things from this past Sunday -

1. Our pastor, Earl Marshall, talked last week about worship and how our worship & our expressiveness is not done to call down the presence of God in to our midst but, instead, is done as a result of the fact that God has come down to be in our midst. Our singing, raising hands, bowing down, etc is not done so that God will come and be among His people but, rather, in response to God having come to be among His people. That is a massive distinction! The prophets of Baal from 1 Kings 18 were dancing, shouting, slashing themselves so that their god would be among them. The church expresses itself in worship in response to God already being in our midst.
   We moved that idea along from last week by beginning this week’s service by singing two songs that talk about raising our hands, bowing down, expressing ourselves in worship because of who God is and what He’s done. I opened our service by reminding people of what we are doing and why we are doing it when we gather – that even our gathering is a response to the new life we have been given through Christ.
2. We taught “Yahweh” – not sure if the song was too high or too hard or too something else but it didn’t seem like people engaged. We’ll give it another shot. There are a couple other songs on the new Hillsong CD that I’d consider teaching our church. We’ll see.
3. “Restore My Soul” is a great song by Andi Rozier. The verse melody is known from “When I Survey” and, I think, other Irish folk songs. The lyrics of both verses and the chorus fit the theme and direction of our morning perfectly – that when God is doing the work of restoration in our lives, we must be directed back to the cross for true comfort and to be reminded that the great call on our life continues despite our distraction.

One Response to “Worship Confessional – Sunday, September 27, 2009”

1. jeff says:

   November 1, 2009 at 4:31 pm

   Hi Chris
   Could you send me the lead sheets for Restore My Soul
   I can’t find them anywhere.
   Would greatly appreciate it
   Jeff

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