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.”

Sunday Set List – April 18, 2010

Apr 20

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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.