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Jason Fried recently wrote, “Constraints are advantages in disguise. Limited resources force you to make do with what you’ve got. There’s no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.” Sometimes circumstances force our creativity. This past Sunday, I knew I’d be going without percussion or drums, so that put some constraints on the music I could choose. But I also knew that I’d have a violinist and a mandolin player, in addition to bass, keys, and two acoustic guitars.
Our pastor was preaching on Romans 2:17-29, with a focus on the law. With that in mind, I prepared the following set.
1) Come Now Is The Time To Worship
2) Open The Eyes Of My Heart
Admittedly, these two songs didn’t necessarily reinforce the theme of the service, but I find that they’re always good openers. They get us to focus on worship and “open up” to what God has to say to us.
3) All That I Need
The law can’t provide for us, but God does. That’s what I wanted to get across with this song, that God provides everything we need.
4) You Are My King
There’s no law without a king, right? How better to focus on the original source of the law than to explicitly acknowledge Christ’s Kingship?
5) Good To Me
I love this song because it comes from such a place of brokenness: “I am weak, I need Your love to free me.” We need freedom. The law will never free us; only God can.
6) Amazing Grace (following the sermon)
I know my pastor pretty well, and I should after serving under him for five years. I knew that after all that talk about the law, he’d turn to grace, so I used “Amazing Grace” as our response song. And with our instrumentation, we played kind of a country-ish, slightly bluegrassy version, which the congregation really seemed to enjoy.
So that was my set list for this past Sunday, and the reasons behind it. I’m curious to hear what you think, and also what songs you played and why.
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