Sunday, February 6, 2011 at Community Gospel Church in Bremen, Indiana:
THE SERVICE
Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing) [Brenton Brown/Brian Doerkson] (G)
Welcome & Announcements
Offering
Your Grace is Enough [Chris Tomlin] (F)
The Ninety and Nine [E.C. Clephane/Ira D. Sankey] (F)
Come Ye Sinners [Owens/Johnson/Hamilton/Seay] (C)
Mighty to Save [Ben Fielding/Reuben Morgan] (G)
Message
Come Ye Sinners (C)
Dismiss
THE BAND
Jonathan David Eckberg - guitar/vocals
Cyndi Leamon - vocals
Sean Norris - drums
Jordan Muck - bass
Dale Graham - audio
Vance Csaszar - video
NOTES
Our team was rather slight this week. Due to some traveling and some sicknesses and various issues we seemed to have everybody bow out this week. This was compounded by the fact that the snowstorm forced us to cancel practice on Wednesday night and move it to Saturday afternoon. With the switch of practice times I knew that we would be a little short on rehearsal, so I didn't mind having a "skeleton team" this week. It's always simpler, and therefore, easier to adjust on the fly, with fewer people. That being said, we did have a great week. Pastor Mike Fanning continued to kill it from the pulpit with the second part of our "Finding Your Place at the Table" series (examining the parable of the Prodigal Son).
THE SONGS
Hallalujah (Your Love is Amazing) - This is an older song, but a good one. With the three-piece instrumentation it was a great song to rock through. It's very simple and an excellent song of praise and adoration for the love of our Father.
Your Grace is Enough - One of my favorite songs. Such a wonderful declaration of Paul's prayer in 2 Corinthians 12. I chose this as our opener in light of last weeks message of the Prodigal Son. The point was that both the older and younger brother loved the things the father had to offer more than they loved the father himself and that's where they fell into sin. I think it's important to remember as we continue to study this parable that GOD is enough for us. We become heirs to His kingdom, but that inheritance is secondary to receiving the grace of GOD. He is all we need. Our version of this song runs pretty much straight off of the Chris Tomlin version.
The Ninety and Nine - Jordan and Sean kept saying we needed a pint of Guinness in our hands as we played this song! It has distinctively Irish feel to it. And we go straight through it. I didn't figure that many people in the congregation would know this song right off the bat. However, as is the case with most hymns, the people picked up on it by the second or third verse. I chose to put this into the set despite the "known" factor because the sermon today was focusing on the people around Jesus during Luke 15 and the other two parables in the chapter (The Lost Sheep and The Lost Coin). It's a hymn that walks through the Lost Sheep parable so I felt that it really set the mood and got our people thinking along those lines early in the day.
Come Ye Sinners - As this weeks sermon focused on the other parables of Luke 15, it also looked at the people around Jesus. As the chapter opens He is eating with the tax collectors and "sinners". These are the people christ came to save. This is us. The whole point of this song is that we as sinners are called to bring ourselves to Christ. We don't try to clean ourselves up first, we simply come to Christ as the sinners we all are.
Mighty to Save - We tweak the arrangement of this song a little bit just to shorten it up and make it a little more succinct. But musically it's a very standard arrangement. We closed our set with this song because as we move from our recognition of our true nature and our need for a savior (Come Ye Sinners) we must have the next step. That next step is the knowledge that our GOD is the only means of salvation and he is so much greater than our sins and our old nature.
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