Matthew 22:19–21—Gratefulness

Okay, I will discuss them more in detail at practice but let’s not walk away without a ton of notes.

1. Alive, Forever, Amen - Kelly (who used my mic) was loud through the monitors. The praise team got off (or the choir got off, depending who you ask) and the instruments went with the person loudest through the monitor. This is not Kelly’s nor Joe’s fault. Let’s see how we can fix this. Even though this is a regular song for us (4th time we have done the song) would better markings on the playlist, like who has what mic, been the answer? Would having Kelly to stay for practice been the answer?

2. The Piano lost it’s sound going to the board. When the piano loses it’s sound, there are hundreds of reasons why. But we do know that the sound was not going to the sound board. I don’t care if we have to replace every wire, let’s fix it. But the problem doesn’t end there. The wires are easily being trampled on because of it’s location. We need to continue to rearrange the stage until we find what is best for the musicians, sound, and everything else. Maybe a little better passageway to the instruments as well.

3. After those problems, everything else was due to the fact that the band is not writing notes in their music. Bass and drums gave us an incredible intro into the wrong song. We need to write all of our notes in our music. I’m not passing the buck off to the musicians. After the “God is Good all the Time” everyone, including myself was gun shy.

Here are three things that must be done to keep us being complacent and prepared:
1. Writing down all notes into our music. And making sure everyone is correctly writing down the notes.
2. Having well communicating practices. Making sure everyone is on the same page.
3. Glenn’s class lets out at 10:25. Everyone needs to be at their spot at 10:26 to run over and talk through some major issues. This is the issue that always seems to be more lax. We do a couple of times, then it’s 10:30, then 10:40.

The good things about Sunday:
1. If that’s the worse we have done is several months, then we are doing good. After we restarted “God is Good” everyone responded real well to the service. I still had a ton of compliments. I received more compliments this Sunday then what I did for “Praise You”.
2. Holy Spirit Rain Down. We left a little room for the Holy Spirit. Great Job following me!
3. It is now in our system, that no matter what happens on stage, we will worship!

“Make an appeal to the Lord. There has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t need to stay any longer.” - Exodus 9:28

“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended on prayer.” - William Booth

Pharaoh thought of himself as a deity and yet acknowledged that prayer was his only hope. Pharaoh was a godless pagan; therefore, he’s not criticized for turning to prayer as a last resort.

Worship leaders, for the most part, are not godless pagans. However, don’t we find ourselves rushing through the opening prayer at our rehearsals so we can get down to business? How many of us have tried to skip over taking prayer requests because we know listening to them will take up half our rehearsal time?

Yes, there are those who get Wednesday choir practice confused with Wednesday night prayer service and try your patience. How awful would it be to let a choir practice become a prayer service once in a while and reschedule the singing rehearsal for another time?

Lord, give us wisdom regarding prayer and practice. Help us to practice well and pray powerfully.

Matthew 22:37-38 - Enthusiasm

Bro. Ross will be gone this Sunday. David will be preaching. However, this will still be veteran’s day.

David will be preaching on reaching the lost

Luke 14:12-14 - Hospitality

Please keep all ideas for the worship service as a comment on the blog. When we finalize all the songs, videos, specials and such, then we will put them together in the spreadsheet. That’s when we will then add our comments about the details of the playlist.

Thanks for helping.