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OnePrayer: Risk-Takers
By admin | June 16, 2008
This week at LifeConnection we began a brand new teaching series titled OnePrayer. The idea was developed by LifeChurch in Oklahoma.
Basically, churches from around the world are joining together responding the the question, “If you could pray just one prayer to God, for the Church, what would it be?” Many are dong so via video, which enables churches to hear teaching from gifted communicators from all around the world. LifeConnection’s prayer Sunday morning was, “Lord, make us risk-takers.”
Being that it was Father’s Day, the message was geared especially to the dudes. I won’t go into great detail about the content of the message, I’ll simply have you go listen to it here. It’s not up just yet, but come back in a day or two and it should be ready to go.
Generally, we try enhance the musical worship by developing a song list that is consistent as possible with the teaching for the morning. Rather than bombard people with lots of different small ideas, we try to communicate one big idea. We took a little longer than usual settling down on the specific direction for the teaching when we were doing musical planning, so we were a bit less intentional with the consistency of that big idea this time around. Check out the set:
When I Think About the Lord: Shane and Shane
Forever: Chris Tomlin
Beautiful Jesus: Kristian Stanfill
How Great is Our God: Chris Tomlin
How Great Thou Art: LifeConnection style (who was the original composer?)
We were going to follow the teaching with How Great Thou Art, but Rev. Allen came up to us pre-service because he was concerned it was too pretty to follow a teaching that was going to challenge dudes to quit being so pretty. With that, we followed the teaching with Beautiful Jesus and How Great is Our God. In hindsight, it was a good move and actually very consistent.
One memorable statement from the morning: “We don’t work up the courage to become risk-takers by mustering it up within ourselves. We become risk-takers by catching a fresh vision of God.” With that, I can’t think of two better songs to follow a teaching like that than these. It turned out to be an intense and challenging morning. I know my testosterone levels have increased significantly and I finally have chest hair. Till next time.
–Carson
Topics: Events, Worship Experience, Worship Gatherings |
June 17th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
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June 18th, 2008 at 10:07 am
…so i can get one of those pouches you were handing out toward the end of the service?
i’m kinda curious to see how they look like.