Worship Prefessional – Sunday, March 30, 2008

Alright – so tomorrow we are kicking off our new series here at OBC, “identity”. We’re talking about the things we do around here that make us unique. For this series we’re talking about breaking each service in to two parts – worship/community at the front end and teaching/application at the back end. We’ll focus on a certain aspect of the character of God during the worship part and move to the teaching part out of that.

The plan for tomorrow -

Because Of Your Love – Paul Baloche – F
Announcements/Offering/Meet & Greet
Scripture
How Awesome Is Our God – Chris Vacher & Craig Douglas – C
Yesterday, Today & Forever – Vicky Beeching – E
Unchanging – Chris Tomlin – E
Jesus You Are Worthy – Brenton Brown – F
Prayer
Teaching – identity:ignite

For the worhip section we’re focusing on the “unchanging-ness” of God. I don’t think that’s a word but it’s the second time I’ve used it so that makes it official. It’s going in my dictionary. We’ll be using the songs, scripture and prayer to remind people that God is the same today as He’s always been and can have faith that He will be the same tomorrow and the day after.

“ignite” is a cool concept for us – basically it covers the understanding that everyone in our church would take their own spiritual development seriously through Sunday morning, small groups and spiritual disciplines. We’ll be covering Sunday morning tomorrow – why do we do it? how do we prepare? how do we engage? Good questions to be asking and I’m looking forward to working through this stuff with our congregation tomorrow. We’ll also be providing people with some resources that will allow them to take some next steps in the area of spiritual disciplines – personal Bible study and prayer, specifically.

I’m actually off stage tomorrow morning. I try and do this once every couple of months so that I can check stuff out from our congregation’s perspective and also to give our musicians a chance to run rehearsal and the service on their own. Because I oversee our “first impressions” (greeters, ushers, etc) it’s good to be on the ground with them every once in a while.

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1.   Worship Textfessional - April 6, 2008 — Chris From Canada says:

   April 7, 2008 at 1:57 pm

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