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Oak Hill Set List for 05.09.2010

May 11

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Brad got us started a few weeks ago sharing set lists, so I thought I’d share our order from this past Sunday. God really moved during our rehearsal time especially to stir our hearts in the worship of him.

I’ve been trying the “1-5 Worship Planning” concept we learned at Harvest University as a tool to lead our people from a state of potential distraction to an understanding of and response to the transcendence of God. So far it’s been working, though I won’t elaborate much on that here since it’s not really my idea and I don’t want to do it injustice in describing it. However, for what it’s worth, it has been going well (even if it is slightly difficult since we sing only 4 songs and the concept works better with 5).

So we began with “You are Good”by Israel Houghton, in essence calling one another to worship by singing “We worship you, hallelujah, hallelujah!”. I was supposed to read Psalm 65:1-6 prior to that, but I forgot. So before going back to the pre-chorus and chorus for the last time, I grabbed my Bible and read the passage. My pianist didn’t really know what was going on, but he covered well with piano fill.

The transition into the next song was a little rough and we should have rehearsed it more. But we then moved to Gateway’s “Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King,” continuing the thought of God’s goodness in that he’s the “fount of every blessing.” I then prayed, declaring to God that, while we love his blessings, his presence is more precious to us than any other thing he could give us. Then we asked him for a better understanding of his presence by singing the chorus once more.

From there it was right into “Better is One Day” continuing the idea that God’s presence is better than anything.

Then right into the chorus of “Revelation Song.” This was the second week teaching it and it worked pretty well considering its newness, in that I believe people used it to bring praise to God. We are teaching it because I realized after evaluating our song list in the “1-5 Worship Planning” process, that we had only two “5′s”, or purely ascriptive songs that give voice to nothing but the adoration and exaltation of God. Little to no mention of “me, my or I.”  So we will be teaching nothing but “5′s” for the rest of the summer. Let me know if you have any good songs that fit in this category.

We went back and sang the chorus of “Better is One Day” right out of the end of “Revelation Song” and Pastor Nate came up to pray and move into the sermon that he preached from Exodus 18 about responding to God in proclamation, praise and ministry. We closed with a reprise for “You are Good.”