Sunday Setlist / 1.16.11

Here's what went down on Sunday morning at Community Gospel Church in Bremen, IN:

THE SET:
Opening Song - All My Life (G)
     Welcome & Announcements
     Offering
All Creatures of Our GOD and King (C) [Francis of Assisi]
Our Great GOD (C) [Fernando Ortega]
Surrender (G) [Mark James]
I Surrender All (C) [Winfield S. Weeden]
     Message
Response Video / Reflection - Mold and Shape Me (B) [Jonathan David Eckberg]


THE BAND:
Jonathan David Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Kay Smith - vocals
Staci Smith - vocals
Jessica Yoder - vocals
John Schini - vocals
Sean Norris - drums
Marc Hyde- bass
Beth Stemble - piano
Mike Stemble - audio
Vance Csaszar - visual


NOTES:
This was my first week at CGC where I was working with the regular worship teams.  The other weeks that I have been here we've had limited prep time and so we just grabbed a few folks to fill in some gaps and ran with it.  So, I really had no idea what to expect.  I think we are all having to make adjustments to styles and routines.  I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little anxious about working out this first week.  However, I don't think it could have gone much better.  I am extremely blessed to be working with the worship teams at CGC.  We have a whole stable of musicians who love worshipping and love love the privilage of leading the congregation.

This week kicked off a two-week mini-series by Senior Pastor Mike Fanning called "Fully Alive".  The focus of the series is John 10:10 and the fact that Christ came that we might have life and have it abundantly.  For us to take hold of this life requires an attitude and an action.  This week we discussed the attitude of all out surrender to Christ, so the worship set centered on "Surrender".


THE SONGS:
All My Life - I've sung this song for quite a while now I have to admit, I have no idea who wrote it.  No clue.  If you know please reply to this post and let me in.  It's a great, simple song that we roll through and rock out a little bit.  It's a lot of fun.  The message of the song is the giving of our entire lives to the GOD who is like no other.

All Creatures of Our GOD and King - We follow the David Crowder version of this song.  It follows the  traditional melody line and then adds a tag of "Alleluia" over and over at the end.  It ended up with a bit more of a country feel to it than I had originally intended, but that was just the way it seemed to roll out.

Our Great GOD - We did this song in "C" so that we could make a seamless transition from All Creatures into Our Great GOD.  It's such an incredibly powerful song.  I don't use this song as much as I would like to because it's not the most singable tune.  There's a fairly wide range on it and the phrasing is sometimes a little tricky.  I really debated whether or not to use it in the service this week, but it's just such a wonderful expression of the sovereignty and majesty of our GOD who rules over everything that it transitioned us well from All Creatures to get us to the next two songs that I had to throw it in.  I also decided that with the ease and singability of the other songs in the set we would be ok with one song that  was not as easily digestable.

Surrender - A slightly older worship song but another great message.  The chorus of "I surrender all to you, all to you" is so cool (and so difficult to apply to my life).

I Surrender All - We moved from the chorus of Surrender, which ends on the C chord and used that as our jump into the Chorus of I surrender all which starts on the C, giving us our key change from G to C.  We did a standard version of the song but we only did a chorus-verse1-chorus-chorus arrangement.  It made it much shorter but REALLY emphasized the chorus.  These last two songs were no brainers in picking them out.  As soon as Pastor Mike mentioned the topic I had those two put in place.

Mold and Shape Me - This was not a congregational worship song, but was used more as a background for a video on transition.  The original video had another song to it, but we opted to mute the audio and I played this song which really fit the visuals better, in my opinion.  It's an older song from my first album.  I was thinking about it and I think I wrote this thing 12 years ago.  Crazy how GOD puts stuff in the head and fingers of an 18 year old kid that means more to him when he's 30 than it did when he wrote it. In any case, its a simple worship song that's a plea for GOD to move in us however, whenever, and wherever he sees fit.


To see what other churches around the country sang on Sunday visit the Sunday Setlist at www.theworshipcommunity.com.